Cornsilk

Cornsilk (Cross Plains, Tennessee)

Cornsilk is a historic house near Cross Plains, Tennessee, United States. It was built circa 1850 for Thomas Stringer. In the 1930s, it was acquired by author Andrew Nelson Lytle, who renamed it "for his ancestral home in Alabama."

Corn silk

Corn silk is a common name for Stigma maydis, the shiny, thread-like, weak fibers that grow as part of ears of corn (maize); the tuft or tassel of silky fibers that protrude from the tip of the ear of corn. The ear is enclosed in modified leaves called husks. Each individual fiber is an elongated style, attached to an individual ovary. The term probably originated sometime between 1850 and 1855.

Shades of white

Shades of white are colors that differ slightly from the CIE standard illuminant D65, a white point that represents the average color of daylight at noon. There isn't one objectively pure white, as noon daylight varies by location and atmospheric conditions, and the choice of using D65 instead of direct sunlight or a white point on the Planckian locus is arbitrary. For simplicity, this article will use the term pure white for the D65 white point.

cornsilk

Noun

1. A very light yellow colour, like that of corn silk.
2. Alternative form of corn silk (the thready fibres of stigmata of corn (maize))

Adjective

1. Of a very light yellow colour, like that of corn silk.