Color Names

Quill Grey

Faded grey of old parchment, softened by the quill that wrote on it.

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Quill Grey is a pale grey.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Quill Grey

Quill

A quill is a writing tool made from a moulted flight feather of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen, the fountain pen, and the ballpoint pen.

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Grey

Grey or gray is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma. It is the color of a rain or storm cloud, of ash, and of lead.

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quill

Noun

  1. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
  2. A pen made from a feather.

Verb

  1. To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
  2. To write.
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grey

Adjective

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
  2. Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).

Verb

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
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