Color Names

Periwinkle Blossom

Dusty blue like a periwinkle flower that's gone to seed.

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Periwinkle Blossom is a cool grey, close to blue.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Periwinkle Blossom

Periwinkle (color)

Periwinkle is a color in the blue and violet family. Its name is derived from the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb which bears flowers of the same color.

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Blossom

In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring.

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periwinkle

Noun

  1. Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. Similar plants of genus Catharanthus.

Adjective

  1. Of pale bluish purple colour.
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blossom

Noun

  1. A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; a mass of such flowers.
  2. The state or season of producing such flowers.

Verb

  1. To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.
  2. To begin to thrive or flourish.
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