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  2. Eggplant (color) - Wikipedia

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    Eggplant is a dark purple [1] or brownish -purple [2] color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplants. [3] Another name for the color eggplant is aubergine [2] (the French, German and British English word for eggplant). The first recorded use of eggplant as a color name in English was in 1915.

  3. Red-violet - Wikipedia

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    A red-violet used on a postage stamp. Red-violet refers to a rich color of high medium saturation about 3/4 of the way between red and magenta, closer to magenta than to red. [1] In American English, this color term is sometimes used in color theory as one of the purple colors—a non- spectral color between red and violet that is a deep ...

  4. List of flags by color combination - Wikipedia

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    Colors related to the two metals of European heraldry (gold and white) are sorted first. The five major colors of European heraldry (black, red, blue, green, and purple) are sorted next. Miscellaneous colors (murrey, tan, grey, and pink) are sorted last. Similar colors are grouped together to make navigation of this list practical.

  5. Gay men's flags - Wikipedia

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    The colors from turquoise to green represent community, healing and joy; the white stripe in the middle is an iteration of Monica Helms' trans flag design and includes people who are transgender, intersex, gender non-conforming, or non-binary; and the colors blue through purple represent pure love, strength, and diversity.

  6. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    Shades of purple. There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below. In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue. [1] However, the meaning of the term purple is not well defined. There is confusion about the meaning of the terms purple and violet even among ...

  7. List of flags containing the color purple - Wikipedia

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    Purple is one of the least used colors in vexillology and heraldry. Currently, the color appears in only four national flags: that of Dominica, Spain, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, and one co-official national flag, the Wiphala (co-official national flag of Bolivia ). However, it is also present in the flags of several administrative subdivisions ...

  8. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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    Magenta is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMY color models, it is located midway between red and blue, opposite green. Complements of magenta are evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 500–530 nm.

  9. What's up with the mysterious purple streetlights at the ...

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    The science behind the white to purple light change. Purple street lights contrast with the red stop lights at the intersection of Hypoluxo and Jog Roads in Palm Beach County. LED lights are made ...