Color Names

Pink Spinel

Pale pink, like the delicate colour of a spinel gemstone, not quite rose.

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Pink Spinel is a pale grey, close to pink.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Pink Spinel

Spinel

Spinel is the magnesium/aluminium member of the larger spinel group of minerals. It has the formula MgAl2O4 in the cubic crystal system. The name comes from the Latin word spinella, a diminutive form of spine, in reference to its pointed crystals.

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Pink

Pink is a pale tint of red or rose, the color of the pink flower. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. A combination of pink and white is associated with innocence, whereas a combination of pink and black links to eroticism and seduction.

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pink

Noun

  1. A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
  2. Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.

Adjective

  1. Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
  2. Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
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spinel

Noun

  1. Any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours.
  2. Any crystalline material, not necessarily an oxide, that possesses the same crystal structure as this mineral.

Noun

  1. Spindle; the amount of yarn that fits on a spindle.
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