A test that will show how well you understand the names of colors, sometimes you just need intuition.

Reading classics in school, I often encountered incomprehensible words. Most often, these were the names of colors and shades beyond "every hunter who wants to know where the pheasant sits."

Names of colors and shades

In what “masaka velvet dress” was the Countess Rostov from “War and Peace” going to be at the ball? The search led to the fact that it is correct to write with two “SS” – “massac”. And that it's a dark red with a blue tint.

We're offering you a test, too. It will show you how to know the names of colors and shades, especially when you need intuition. Before you unusual names of colors and shades. 11 of them. Try to solve them all. So, collect knowledge, intuition, the ability to think associatively and choose from the proposed options the correct, in your opinion, answer:

1. What color are the almandine highlights from the necklace? Once in the rays of the spotlights, the stones played blue, then almandine, then yellow-green sparks.

1. Bluish-green
2. Orange.
3. Dark cherry

2. Amianth is: Through amianth clouds, sunlight penetrated.

1. Bluish-gray
2. Dirty-white
3. Yellowish-gray

3. Bacan color: Natalia picked up a blouse of bacan color for the trouser suit: immediately after work she went with friends to a rock concert.

1. Scarlet
2. Emerald
3. Vasyl

4. Contrary to fears, the biscuit color of her hair gave the impression that Madame Julie was younger than her years.

Peels

1. Blonde with golden hair
2. Grey, silvery.
3. Rusty, light brown tone

5. The foal was: Next to the cart, a kowary foal ran quickly.

1. Chestnut suit
2. gray-beige
3. Golden brown

6. Carmelite is: Brother Yarik in the Carmelite color of the Habit stared aloof in front of him.

1. Pure brown
2. The darkest gray
3. Black.

A little more! 7. Which of the proposed colors is the most accurate? The wind drove boiling clouds across the sky.

1. Grey-white
2. Creamy
3. Snow-white

8. The modern name of the color of prunel shoes: Mashenka liked the prunel shoes so much that she took care of them very carefully and wore them for the fourth autumn.

1. Grey
2. Black.
3. Brown.

9. How did the boy get his New Year’s beads? The irrigated beads most attracted Roma, and he decided to strap a necklace for a Christmas tree from them.

1. Scarlet.
2. Vasyl
3. Golden.

10. Seladon is: The aromatic tea was very beautifully combined with the celadon color of the cups.

1. Beige
2. Chocolate cream
3. Grey-green

11. Choose from the list of Yakhont color: “And to your eyes will fit wonderfully my favorite Yakhont earrings,” said the grandmother, taking out of the casket velvet box.

1. Dark green
2. Dark blue.
3. Orange

You can check with the right answers.

1. Dark cherry. Almandine is a mineral from crystalline shales; contains iron, aluminum, pomegranate. The intensity of the mineral’s color depends on its iron content. Most often, almandine is saturated shades of red - cherry, crimson. Thus, the meaning of the rare color name was fixed. Although there are even purple and black almandines.
2. Dirty white. Amiant is a type of asbestos. Most often the name “amianth” was used in the descriptions of the sky.
3. Crimson. Bakan is a crimson paint from insects of a cochineal worm.
4. Grey, silver. The adjective “bisnoy” was used, talking about hair, about wool.

Gray beige. Kaury is the name of a horse suit. Pure brown. This is the color of the clothes of the Capuchin monks. Responses to the test, continuation Snow white. The foam from the boiling of key water from the time of Kievan Rus was called “boiling”. Hence the name of the color. Black. This was the color of the prunel – a dense fabric, from which even shoes were sewn. Now in the name of the color “prunel” imply the black color of the shade of ripe mulberry berries (mulberry). Scarlet. Do you remember, “Ruminous Dawn is the East”? And the Green sails were thin, that is, ale on the horizon.



Gray-green. Celadon is the hero of Honore d’Urfe’s pastoral novel Astreya. He was a shepherd and wore gray-green clothes. Hence the name of the color. And in China, porcelain dishes are made, covered with glaze of seladon color, especially for tea ceremonies. And that ceramic is also called celadon. Dark blue. But, imagine, if the list of options indicated also red and purple, then any of the answers would be correct. After all, Yakhonts in Kievan Rus called precious stones of several types, mainly rubies and sapphires. Therefore, the Yakhont color has three meanings at once: red, purple and dark blue.

However, this is far from the only case. Pale color (from the French paille - "straw"), for example, some sources explain as a pinkish-beige shade of yellow, and others interpret it as light gray-brown. There are probably other similar cases of disagreement in explaining the meaning of colors.

If you are interested in understanding the names of colors and shades, know: ancient and rare their names are very many.