Color Names

Bitter Briar

Thorny rose stems after a frost, grey and prickly.

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Bitter Briar is a warm grey, close to mauve.

It can be described as warm, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Bitter Briar

bitter

Adjective

  1. Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
  2. Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.

Adverb

  1. To an intense or severe degree; bitterly.
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briar

Noun

  1. Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
  2. Anything that is sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

Noun

  1. Tree heath (Erica arborea), a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
  2. A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
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