Color Names

Nankeen

Faded yellow cotton, like old linens left in the sun.

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Nankeen is a warm beige, close to brown.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Nankeen

Nankeen

Nankeen is a kind of pale yellowish cloth originally made in Nanjing, China from a yellow variety of cotton, but subsequently manufactured from ordinary cotton that is then dyed.

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nankeen

Noun

  1. A type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China.
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