Elizabethan Color Names
Looking to add a bit of color to your Elizabethan dialogue?
Here's a literal way of doing so. You'll instantly sound
Elizabethan as you throw in such colors as "goose-turd" and
"dead-Spaniard". So. go to it and paint the town "incarnate".
- Bristol red
- a "pleasant" red
- Cane Color
- yellowish tint
- Carnation
- a color resembling raw flesh
- Crane
- grayish white
- Dead Spaniard
- pale grayish tan
- Gingerline
- reddish violet
- Goose-turd
- yellowish green
- Hair
- bright tan
- Incarnate
- red
- Isabel
- light buff
- Lincoln green
- bright green
- Lustie-gallant
- light red
- Maidenhair
- bright tan
- Milk-and-water
- bluish white
- Murrey
- purplish red
- Orange tawney
- orangish brown
- Peach
- deep pinkish orange
- Plunket
- light blue
- Popinjay
- bluish green
- Primrose
- pale yellow
- Puke
- dirty brown
- Rat
- dull grey
- Sad
- any dark color
- Sangyn
- blood red
- Sheep
- natural
- Strammel
- red
- Straw
- light yellow
- Tawney
- brown tinged with yellow
- Wachet
- pale greenish blue
- Whey
- pale whitish blue
- Willow
- light green