Chartreuse is a color?

[Annikaya]

My sisters and I were talking about this word the other day. We all agreed that chartreuse should be a specific color and that we thought it was that specific color before we found out what color it really was. Shouldn't chartreuse be sort of a maroonish red? Too bad it's really a shade of green...  

[Bazisan]

Yeah a very bright yellowish green. One of my "My Little Ponies" has Chartreuse hair. Baby Shady... ...I'm an adult. Really! I'm married and everything. It's just that those ponies are so bloody cute!  

[Annikaya]

Well, I'm 22 and still love My Little Ponies. Nothing wrong with that!  

[toachung]

It is a brillant yellow-green, or so my dictionary says.  

[MyOwnBestCritic]

Chartreuse is a dark red word, yes. Other color words are different that the colors they are - vermillion is a green word, when it's actually orangey.

Then again, that's just my slight synaesthesia acting up. blaugh  

[QuixoticNeurotic]

Chartreuse is a green-yellow, my favorite color even.

It was named for a liquor of the color.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/e/ed/Green_Chartreuse.jpg  

[Galad Aglaron]

I believe chartreuse is a greenish-yellow. Named after a liquor of similar colour, made by Carthusian monks.  

[MyOwnBestCritic]

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Then how come "Absynthe" isn't a color? gonk No equal opportunity for liquor?  

[Annikaya]

Is the color Burgundy then named after the wine? Or the area in France where they grow the wine?  

[Kuo51]

Annikaya

Is the color Burgundy then named after the wine? Or the area in France where they grow the wine?

The wine is named after the region in France so I guess the color's named after both.? sweatdrop  

[Serverus Snope]

I've always seen it as a shade of green, but kinda like a generic shade rather than being yellowish or blueish.  

[Pup in Fluff]

I actually always thought it was a shade of red. sweatdrop  

[Sachiko13]

I've known that it was green since about third grade when I read a story in which a chartreuse goose and a maroon bull got in an argument about what colors they are.