Re: Quest for colours: what's basic then?

Doug Dee wrote:
>
> I seem to recall reading somewhere that before
> oranges were introduced into Europe, that color
> was known as "jacinth."  That may have been a
> technical term (in heraldry?) and not as common
> as "orange" later became.

I believe the term in Heraldry was "tawney" or "tenné."

--Ph. D.

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