Color Names

Dusted Truffle

Truffle earth, dry and crumbly, like the forest floor where they hide.

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Dusted Truffle is a warm grey.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Dusted Truffle

Truffle

A truffle is the fruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus, one of the species of the genus Tuber. More than one hundred other genera of fungi are classified as truffles including Geopora, Peziza, Choiromyces, and Leucangium. These genera belong to the class Pezizomycetes and the Pezizales order. Several truffle-like basidiomycetes are excluded from Pezizales, including Rhizopogon and Glomus.

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dusted

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of dust
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truffle

Noun

  1. Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.
  2. Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”).
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