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Chromonyms 2

An open list of 1541 words by mollusque.

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Names for colors composed of two or more words. All of these are defined as colors in at least one dictionary, most being in MW3. See Chromonyms for one-word color names.

Some well-known colors are not listed because I have not found them in dictionaries (e.g., hot pink, hunter orange) or they are defined as adjectives, not nouns (e.g., bone-white, chalk-white).

Some color names differ by only a single letter: holly green and holy green, iris green and irish green; others are anagrams of each other: lemon yellow and melon yellow.

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  • reesetee commented on the list chromonyms-2

    Yikes. That would make my head hurt. But I think I'd go with the simpler tags, in part because you'd end up with some lovely word clouds. :-)

    January 27, 2009

  • mollusque commented on the list chromonyms-2

    Thanks, reesetee! I finally started tagging my Chromonyms by color, which provided the impetus. That tagging, of course, raises all sorts of questions. Should I tag just as, for example, "blue" and "green", or as "blue", "greenish blue", "bluish green", and "green".

    January 26, 2009

  • reesetee commented on the list chromonyms-2

    Nifty list!

    January 26, 2009