hār, adj: hoary, grey, old. (HAAR / ˈhaːɹ)

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ōmig, adj: rusty, rust-coloured. (OH-mih / ˈoː-mɪj)

grēne-hǣwen, adj: greenish. (ˈgrā-ne-ˌha-wen)

wann-fāh, adj: dark-hued. (WAHN-FAH)

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salu-brūn, adj: dark-brown. (SAH-luh-BROON)

wyrm-basu, adj; scarlet. (WURM-bah-zoo)

Fieschi Psalter. Cambrai, c. 1290-1295. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.45, f. 256v. [discardingimages.tumblr.com]

weoloc-rēad, adj: of the red colour that is got from the weoloc (a kind of shellfish or whelk), scarlet, purple. (WAY-oh-lock-RAY-ahd)

A purple parchment page of the Codex Argenteus, a sixth-century manuscript from northern Italy. [commons.wikimedia.org]

salu-brūn, adj: dark-brown. [SA-loo-BROON]

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An image in dark-brown of the devil and cat worshippers kissing a cat’s rear end. Jean Tinctor, Traittié du crisme de vauderie (Sermo contra sectam vaudensium). Bruges, c. 1470-1480. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 961, fol. 1r. [discardingimages.tumblr.com]

geolwe, adv: with a yellow tinge. (“YAY-oll-way”)