| What color is "chartreuse"? |
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18% |
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6% |
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 Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:33 am
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...
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:10 pm
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!
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:14 am
Well, I'm 22 and still love My Little Ponies. Nothing wrong with that!
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:32 pm
It is a brillant yellow-green, or so my dictionary says.
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:11 am
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
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:27 pm
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:24 pm
I believe chartreuse is a greenish-yellow. Named after a liquor of similar colour, made by Carthusian monks.
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:17 am
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Then how come "Absynthe" isn't a color? gonk No equal opportunity for liquor?
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:56 am
Is the color Burgundy then named after the wine? Or the area in France where they grow the wine?
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:17 pm
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
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:42 pm
I've always seen it as a shade of green, but kinda like a generic shade rather than being yellowish or blueish.
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:06 am
I actually always thought it was a shade of red. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:26 pm
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.
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