Color Names

Linnet

Grey as a linnet's back, pale enough to blend into the hedgerow.

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Linnet is a pale grey.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and almost grey.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Linnet

Common linnet

The common linnet or Eurasian linnet is a small passerine bird of the finch family, Fringillidae. It derives its common name and the scientific name, Linaria, from its fondness for hemp seeds and flax seeds—flax being the English name of the plant from which linen is made.

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Linnet

Proper noun

  1. A female given name from English, occasionally recorded since the 19th century.
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