Color Names

Chapeau Violet

Violet petals dusting a faded grey top hat, left on a bench.

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Chapeau Violet is a pale grey, close to white.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Chapeau Violet

Chapeau

A chapeau is a flat-topped hat that is traditionally worn by senior clerics and certain nobles. Such hats are worn as part of an official costume or uniform.

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Violet (color)

Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum. It is one of the seven colors that Isaac Newton labeled when dividing the spectrum of visible light in 1704. Violet light has a wavelength between approximately 380 and 435 nanometers. The color's name is derived from the Viola genus of flowers.

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chapeau

Noun

  1. A hat.
  2. A cap of maintenance.

Interjection

  1. well done, bravo; a verbal representation of a hat tip
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violet

Noun

  1. A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; similar-looking plants and flowers.
  2. A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.

Adjective

  1. Of a violet colour.
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