A Dictionary of Colour — green RSS

A name selected from a great variety of fanciful names to denote this pellucid hue.

A colour determined in 1938, after Paul Veronese the Italian painter, in whose works the colour appears.

Matched to the kernel of the nuts of this name. The name has been in use since the end of the nineteenth century.

A colour standardised in 1934 from the colour of semi translucent white glass. Opaline glass is also a decorative style of glass made in France from 1800 to the 1890s, though it reached its peak of popularity during the reign of Napoleon III in the 1850s and 1860s. The glass is opaque or slightly translucent, and can appear either white or brightly coloured in shades of green, blue, pink, black, lavender and yellow. The glass has a high lead content, which defined it as "demi-crystal" or semi-crystal. The primary influences on this style of glass were 16th century Venetian milk glass, and English white glass produced in 18th century Bristol.

A descriptive color name matched to the fruit of the olive tree. The name came into use in the middle of the eighteenth century.