Lacquer-black Vltava
Lovely vowel harmony in that 'lacquer-black', it deserves to entirely supplant the boringly bog standard 'pitch black'. Do me a...
Wheat-complexioned face
You would not expect that this unusual hue - wheat-complexioned - describes a young and uncertain Jesus. Kazantzakis' surprising version...
Lime-green river
In the context of Gormenghast, this intriguing river colour would unlikely be a sign of toxic effluent or bloom, so...
Sea the colour
I love different ways of describing eyes, and colours, and this one allows some range in its definition. Blue or...
Hue to the orange
Part of the fun of designing a website is choosing the colours. I use colourlovers.com where people...
Black-soiled Samaria
Kazantzakis' vibrant re-creation of Biblical lands and times includes earth-colour mapping of different regions. I liked the contrast of red-soiled...
Hodden brown
The notes to Virginia Woolf's Orlando say 'hodden' is a coarse, woollen cloth and the word therefore came to mean...
Slate-color water
Our capacity to name colours in all their rich and detailed variegations is surprisingly limited, and so the recourse to...
Colours as emblems
This is an opening line in Christa Wolf's novel Till Eulenspiegel. Something about it haunted me, two colours flying as...
Liver-coloured foal
One of the most unusual descriptions of a colour I have come across, and I also liked the gawkiness of...
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