Color Names

Whirligig

Pastel pink of a music box ballerina, twirling to a stop.

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Whirligig 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.

Whirligig

Whirligig

A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one part that spins or whirls. They are most commonly powered by the wind but can be hand-, friction- or motor-powered. They can be used as kinetic garden ornaments, and can be designed to transmit sound and vibration into the ground to repel burrowing rodents.

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Whirligig (novel)

Whirligig is a 1998 novel written by Paul Fleischman. It is about a teenager who builds a Whirligig in each of the corners of the United States in order to pay restitution after he kills another person, by accident, in a suicide attempt by car crash.

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whirligig

Noun

  1. Anything that whirls or spins around, such as a toy top or a merry-go-round.
  2. A device incorporating spinning, wind-driven propellers or pinwheels, used as whimsical outdoor decoration in a garden or on a porch.

Verb

  1. To spin or twirl about quickly.
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