Color Names

Burnished Clay

Potters' clay after the wheel and fire, now worn smooth.

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Burnished Clay is a pale grey.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and almost grey.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Burnished Clay

Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide.

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burnished

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of burnish

Adjective

  1. Polished, made shiny by rubbing (especially with a burnisher).
  2. Blazing, bright.
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clay

Noun

  1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
  2. An earth material with ductile qualities.

Verb

  1. To add clay to or to spread clay onto.
  2. To purify using clay.
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