wann-fāh, adj: dark-hued. (WAHN-FAH)
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Category Archives: colours
salu-brūn
salu-brūn, adj: dark-brown. (SAH-luh-BROON)
wyrm-basu
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
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
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]
dæg-rēd
dæg-rēd, n.n: dawn, daybreak, early morning (lit. day-red). [DÆγ-RAYD]
geolwe
geolwe, adv: with a yellow tinge. (“YAY-oll-way”)
gærs-grēne
gærs-grēne, adj: grass-green. (“garz-gray-neh”)
Horae ad usum romanum, in the Hours of Margaret of Orleans. France, 15th century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 1156 B, fol. 4r. [gallica.bnf.fr]
snāw-hwīt
snāw-hwīt, adj: snow-white. (“snaaw-hweet”)
wād
wād, n.n: woad (a plant much used for dyeing). (“wah-d”)
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Woad, a pigment made from the leaves of the plant Isatis tinctoria, or glastum (a.k.a. Asp of Jerusalem). [woad.org.uk]
