Color Names

Pompeian Pink

Warm, sun-baked earth from the excavations at Pompeii, with a hint of salmon.

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Pompeian Pink is a soft brown, close to salmon.

It can be described as soft, light, fresh and rather unsaturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Pompeian Pink

Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great, was a Roman general and statesman who was prominent in the final decades of the Roman Republic. As a young man, he was a partisan and protégé of the dictator Sulla, after whose death he achieved significant military and political success.

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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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