Color Names

Isabelline

Parchment colour, named after a queen, soft as the pages of an old book.

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Isabelline is a light grey, close to white.

It can be described as light, pale and neutral.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Isabelline

Isabelline (architectural style)

The Isabelline style, also called the Isabelline Gothic, or Castilian late Gothic, was the dominant architectural style of the Crown of Castile during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon in the late-15th century to early-16th century. The Frenchman Émile Bertaux named the style after Queen Isabella.

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Isabelline (colour)

Isabelline, also known as isabella, is a pale grey-yellow, pale fawn, pale cream-brown or parchment colour. It is primarily found in animal coat colouring, particularly plumage colour in birds and, in Europe, in horses. It also has historically been applied to fashion. The first known record of the word was in 1600 as "isabella colour"; this use later became interchangeable in literature with "isabelline" after the latter was introduced into print in 1859. The origin of the word is unclear; the uncertainty prompted by this has generated several attempts to provide an etymology and led to one prominent legend.

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Isabelline

Adjective

  1. Of or related to Isabella I of Castile (1451–1504).
  2. Of a style of Spanish Gothic architecture that flourished under Isabella I of Castile.
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