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

I found on the Web the information that "tanne" (e
acute in French) was a specific color belonging to
English heraldic. I neve heard that name for French
heraldic. It seems it was a "dark orange" (orange
fonce')

By the same occasion, I learned then French heraldic
color "sinople" (green) originally meant "red" ! And
that "sable" (black) comes from Slavic "sobol" (a fur,
called "zibeline" in French). Well, in fact I learned
plenty of things by asking Google about "heraldique",
"couleurs" and "noms".

--- "Ph. D." <phild@...> wrote:
> 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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Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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