Color Names

Gretna Green

Misty Scottish border, where eloping couples once rushed to marry.

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Gretna Green is a muted olive, close to green.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Gretna Green

Gretna Green

Gretna Green is a parish in the southern council area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, close to the town of Gretna, on the Scottish side of the English-Scottish border. It is accessed from the A74(M) motorway. Historically Gretna Green was on the Glasgow-Carlisle road, a significant early toll road between England and Scotland.

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Gretna Green (film)

Gretna Green is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It is based on the Broadway play by Grace Livingston Furniss and stars Marguerite Clark. The film is now presumed lost.

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Green

Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It has 295–350 different shades. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495–570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colors, along with red and blue, which are mixed in different combinations to create all other colors. By far the largest contributor to green in nature is chlorophyll, the chemical by which plants photosynthesize and convert sunlight into chemical energy. Many creatures have adapted to their green environments by taking on a green hue themselves as camouflage. Several minerals have a green color, including the emerald, which is colored green by its chromium content.

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Gretna Green

Proper noun

  1. A village on the border between England and Scotland (in Dumfries and Galloway council area just inside Scotland), famous for easy marriages .

Noun

  1. Any town with liberal marriage laws, a place where couples elope.
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