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  2. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    The color royal purple is a tone of purple that is bluer than the ancient Tyrian purple. The first recorded use of royal purple as a color name in English was in 1661. [ 11 ]

  3. Byzantium (color) - Wikipedia

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    The color Byzantium is a particular dark tone of purple.It originates in modern times, and, despite its name, it should not be confused with Tyrian purple (hue rendering), the color historically used by Roman and Byzantine emperors.

  4. Lavender (color) - Wikipedia

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    Lavender is a light shade of purple or violet.It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name.The web color called lavender is displayed adjacent—it matches the color of the palest part of the flower; however, the more saturated color shown as floral lavender more closely matches the average color of the lavender flower as shown in the picture and is the tone of lavender ...

  5. Bisexual lighting - Wikipedia

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    Bisexual lighting is the simultaneous use of pink, purple, and blue lighting and is used to represent bisexual characters. It has been used in studio lighting for film and television, and has been observed in the cinematography of various films.

  6. Heliotrope (color) - Wikipedia

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    The color has been widely referenced as a characterization, the colour of key plot objects, or as flavor text in many works: Heliotrope was a popular colour reference of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, script writers of Hancock's Half Hour.

  7. Orchid (color) - Wikipedia

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    Orchid is a bright rich purple color that resembles the color which various orchids often exhibit. Various tones of orchid may range from grayish purple to purplish-pink to strong reddish purple. The first recorded use of orchid as a color name in English was in 1915. [1] In 1987, orchid was included as one of the X11 colors.

  8. Dark academia - Wikipedia

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    Dark academia is a literary aesthetic [1] and subculture [2] concerned with higher education, the arts, and literature, or an idealised version thereof. The aesthetic centres on traditional educational clothing, interior design, activities such as writing and poetry , ancient art , and classic literature , as well as classical Greek and ...

  9. Allium atropurpureum - Wikipedia

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    The specific epithet atropurpureum, refers to the Latin term of 'deep purple, blackish-purple', [9] referring to the flower colour. The species formerly included; Allium atropurpureum var. hirtulum Regel , which was coined in 1875, [ 10 ] referring to a Central Asian plant, now known as Allium stipitatum Regel.