Color Names

Coquina

Shell fragments compacted into warm, weathered stone.

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Coquina is a warm grey.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Coquina

Coquina

Coquina is a sedimentary rock that is composed either wholly or almost entirely of the transported, abraded, and mechanically sorted fragments of mollusks, trilobites, brachiopods, or other invertebrates. The term coquina comes from the Spanish word for "cockle" and "shellfish".

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coquina

Noun

  1. Any of several small marine clams, of the species Donax variabilis, common in United States coastal waters. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. A soft form of limestone made of fragments of shells, sometimes used as a building or road paving material.
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