Color Names

Western Reserve

Dusty Ohio prairie, where Connecticut once claimed a distant patch of land.

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Western Reserve is a warm grey.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Western Reserve

Connecticut Western Reserve

The Connecticut Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by the Connecticut Colony and later state of Connecticut in what is now mostly Northeast Ohio. The Western Reserve had been granted to Connecticut under the terms of its colonial charter by Charles II of England. The county seat of the Western Reserve was Warren, Ohio.

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western

Adjective

  1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
  2. Of a wind, blowing from the west; westerly.

Noun

  1. (Should we move, merge or split this sense?) A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.
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reserve

Noun

  1. A restriction.

Verb

  1. To keep back; to retain.
  2. To keep in store for future or special use.
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