Obscure Colors No One Has Ever Heard Of

January 9, 2022

Claire Miles

A stranger came to the door at eve, And he spoke the bridegroom fair. He bore a green-white stick in his hand, And, for all burden, care. He asked with the eyes more than the lips For a shelter for the night, And he turned and looked at the road afar Without a window light.

The bridegroom came forth into the porch With, 'Let us look at the sky, And question what of the night to be, Stranger, you and I.' The woodbine leaves littered the yard, The woodbine berries were blue, Autumn, yes, winter was in the wind; 'Stranger, I wish I knew.'

Within, the bride in the dusk alone Bent over the open fire, Her face rose-red with the glowing coal And the thought of the heart's desire.

The bridegroom looked at the weary road, Yet saw but her within, And wished her heart in a case of gold And pinned with a silver pin.

The bridegroom thought it little to give A dole of bread, a purse, A heartfelt prayer for the poor of God, Or for the rich a curse;

But whether or not a man was asked To mar the love of two By harboring woe in the bridal house, The bridegroom wished he knew.

- Robert Frost

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Magenta, turquoise, cyan, teal, maroon – we like to believe we know a lot more colors than just the seven colors of the rainbow. But the truth is there are so many colors we have never heard of. Something we may see as red, for example, can actually be scarlet, tart, vermilion, crimson, amaranth, rufous, ruby, carmine, burgundy, or rosso corsa.

It’s the same situation when it comes to yellow. There are several different shades of yellow that might look the same to the untrained eye. Canary, daffodil, flaxen, butter, lemon, medallion, dandelion, bumblebee, Tuscany, laguna, royal, chartreuse, mustard, goldenrod, straw, saffron, and many more shades that would take too long to individually name.

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Slate, sky, navy, indigo, cobalt, teal, ocean, peacock, azure, cerulean, lapis, stone, Aegean, berry, denim, admiral, sapphire, arctic, turquoise, curious, cadet, ultramarine, Tiffany blue, Carolina blue, imperial, Capri, Munsell, blizzard, maximum, Honolulu, and royal are just some of the shades of blue we can find in the world around us. There are also several shades of green: tea, mint, lizard, lawn, sheen, lime, slimy, forest, India, hunter, Castleton, cadmium, British racing, phthalo, juniper, sage, lime, fern, olive, emerald, pear, moss, shamrock, seafoam, pine, parakeet, seaweed, pickle, pistachio, basil, crocodile, mantis, jungle, Dartmouth, sap, apple, Spanish, jade, and many more.