Amber:
(a) yellowish-brown colour
(b) a hard yellowish-brown substance used for making jewellery (c) a female given name Amaranthine:
(a) purplish-red colour
(b) non-fading; everlasting
(a) yellowish-brown colour
(b) a hard yellowish-brown substance used for making jewellery (c) a female given name Amaranthine:
(a) purplish-red colour
(b) non-fading; everlasting
Aquamarine:
(a) greenish-blue colour
(b) glass-like stone used for jewellery
Aubergine:
(a) dark purplish colour
(b) eggplant
Black:
(a) of the colour of night
(b) very dirty (c) of a race of people with dark skin (Negro) (d) (coffee) without milk (e) very bad; hopeless (f) very angry (g) (of humour) funny about unpleasant or dangerous people or events (h) indicating censure, disgrace or liability to punishment (i) marked by disaster or misfortune (j) wearing black or dark clothing (k) (of a check mark, flag, etc. ) done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, substandard, potentially dangerous, etc. (l) illegal or underground (m) showing a profit (n) disliberately false or intentionally misleading (o) black clothing especially as a sign of mourning (p) (chess, checker) the dark coloured men or pieces or square (q) black pigment (r) a horse or other animal that is entirely black (s) to make black (t) to boycott or ban (u) to become black (v) black beauty – a biphetamine capsule (w) black and white – a printing or writing; a chocolate soda containing ice cream (x) black or white – completely either one way or another, without any intermediate state (y) in the black – operating at a profit or being out of debt
Blue:
(a) of the colour of the clear sky
(b) something having a blue colour (c) sad; depressed (d) (of the skin) discoloured by cold, contusion, fear or vascular collapse (e) indecent (f) to make blue (g) to become or turn blue (h) out of the blue – unexpectedly (i) once in a blue moon – almost never (j) true-blue – completely loyal (k) blue in the face – exhausted and speechless, as from excessive anger, physical strain etc. (l) any of blue – winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae (m) the blue – the sky, the sea, the remote distance
Brown:
(a) the colour of earth or coffee
(b) a race of people who have brown-coloured skin (c) make or become brown (d) (of animals) having skin, fur, hair or feather of that colour (e) sunburned or tanned (f) to fry, saute or scorch slightly in cooking (g) do it up brown – to do thoroughly
Buff:
(a) a brownish-yellow colour
(b) polish (metal) with something soft (c) person interested in a subject (d) the bare skin (e) buffalo (f) a soft, thick, light-yellow leather with a napped surface made originally from buffalo skin and later also from other skins, used for making belts, pouches etc. (f) physically attractive; muscular (g) to dye or stain in a buff colour
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(a) greenish-blue colour
(b) glass-like stone used for jewellery
Aubergine:
(a) dark purplish colour
(b) eggplant
Black:
(a) of the colour of night
(b) very dirty (c) of a race of people with dark skin (Negro) (d) (coffee) without milk (e) very bad; hopeless (f) very angry (g) (of humour) funny about unpleasant or dangerous people or events (h) indicating censure, disgrace or liability to punishment (i) marked by disaster or misfortune (j) wearing black or dark clothing (k) (of a check mark, flag, etc. ) done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, substandard, potentially dangerous, etc. (l) illegal or underground (m) showing a profit (n) disliberately false or intentionally misleading (o) black clothing especially as a sign of mourning (p) (chess, checker) the dark coloured men or pieces or square (q) black pigment (r) a horse or other animal that is entirely black (s) to make black (t) to boycott or ban (u) to become black (v) black beauty – a biphetamine capsule (w) black and white – a printing or writing; a chocolate soda containing ice cream (x) black or white – completely either one way or another, without any intermediate state (y) in the black – operating at a profit or being out of debt
Blue:
(a) of the colour of the clear sky
(b) something having a blue colour (c) sad; depressed (d) (of the skin) discoloured by cold, contusion, fear or vascular collapse (e) indecent (f) to make blue (g) to become or turn blue (h) out of the blue – unexpectedly (i) once in a blue moon – almost never (j) true-blue – completely loyal (k) blue in the face – exhausted and speechless, as from excessive anger, physical strain etc. (l) any of blue – winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae (m) the blue – the sky, the sea, the remote distance
Brown:
(a) the colour of earth or coffee
(b) a race of people who have brown-coloured skin (c) make or become brown (d) (of animals) having skin, fur, hair or feather of that colour (e) sunburned or tanned (f) to fry, saute or scorch slightly in cooking (g) do it up brown – to do thoroughly
Buff:
(a) a brownish-yellow colour
(b) polish (metal) with something soft (c) person interested in a subject (d) the bare skin (e) buffalo (f) a soft, thick, light-yellow leather with a napped surface made originally from buffalo skin and later also from other skins, used for making belts, pouches etc. (f) physically attractive; muscular (g) to dye or stain in a buff colour
Posted by Jade Dame
[To be continued]
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