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Obscure Color Words

1. albicant: whitish; becoming white
2. amaranthine: immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour
3. aubergine: eggplant; a dark purple colour
4. azure: light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue
5. celadon: pale green; pale green glazed pottery
6. cerulean: sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green
7. chartreuse: yellow-green colour
8. cinnabar: red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour
9. citrine: dark greenish-yellow
10. eburnean: of or like ivory; ivory-coloured
11. erythraean: reddish colour
12. flavescent: yellowish or turning yellow
13. greige: of a grey-beige colour
14. haematic: blood coloured
15. heliotrope: purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror
16. hoary: pale silver-grey colour; grey with age
17. isabelline: greyish yellow
18. jacinthe: orange colour
19. kermes: brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects
20. lovat: grey-green; blue-green
21. madder: red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour
22. mauve: light bluish purple
23. mazarine: rich blue or reddish-blue colour
24. russet: reddish brown
25. sable: black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry
26. saffron: orange-yellow
27. sarcoline: flesh-coloured
28. smaragdine: emerald green
29. tilleul: pale yellowish-green
30. titian: red-gold, reddish brown
31. vermilion: bright red
32. virid: green
33. viridian: chrome green
34. xanthic: yellow
35. zinnober: chrome green