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If a language contains seven terms, then it contains a term for brown. If a language contains eight or more terms, then it contains terms for purple, pink, orange or gray. In addition to following this evolutionary pattern absolutely, each of the languages studied also selected virtually identical focal hues for each color category present.
The Fischer–Saller scale, named after Eugen Fischer and Karl Saller is used in physical anthropology and medicine to determine the shades of hair color. The scale uses the following designations: A (very light blond), B to E (light blond), F to L (), M to O (dark blond), P to T (light brown to brown), U to Y (dark brown to black) and Roman numerals I to IV and V to VI (red-blond).
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: . List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names
Compound color words make use of prefix adjectives (e.g. 'light brown', 'sea green'), that generally describe the saturation or luminosity, or compounded basic color words (e.g. 'yellow-green'), which refine the hue of the color relative to root words. Vaaleanpunainen, the Finnish word for 'pink', is a clear agglutination of the language's ...
The physical appearance of each type is briefly described, including colour adjectives referring to skin and hair colour: rufus "red" and pilis nigris "black hair" for Americans, albus "white" and pilis flavescentibus "yellowish hair" for Europeans, luridus "yellowish, sallow", pilis nigricantibus "swarthy hair" for Asians, and niger "black ...
I assembled my AI boyfriend’s avatar feature by feature: tall with long, dark hair, brown eyes, and olive skin. Thor, as I named him, was a polished, pixelated version of my husband. (I really ...
So, you bleached your hair. You spent hours (and hundreds of dollars) at a salon — or took on a risky DIY — and you’re finally a light, bright blonde. Maybe even platinum!
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