Indeed, some colour names included in this Dictionary have several different (and sometimes conflicting) meanings. No colour description in word form can convey the information necessary to enable the precise shade and tone to be identified. Furthermore, those colour descriptions which do exist do not have a sufficiently exact meaning to enable any colour to be determined with precision. However, there is an infinite number of colours and shades, hues and tints (some suggest as many as 16 million) so that it would obviously not be possible to provide each of them with a distinct name. Paul, A Dictionary of Color 3rd Edition, New York, McGraw Hill, 1953). Many works have embarked on that task including, in particular, Maerz and Paul (A. The best way to indicate the ‘meaning’ of a particular colour word is to display its actual colour. The vocabulary of colour is far too imprecise to make that objective a realistic one. This work variously employs each of the above methods, but not with a view to providing definitions of colours. Blue is defined as ‘a colour intermediate between green and violet’ and violet is ‘a bluish-purple colour’. For example, ‘Purple’ is defined in the new Oxford Dictionary as ‘a colour intermediate between red and blue’. We can illustrate the general nature of any particular colour by reference to an object having the same quality (which begs the question) or by reference to its wavelength (which is of interest only as a matter of physics) or by reference to another colour (which becomes circular). 505Īny attempt to define any particular colour merely by means of words is doomed to failure. 455 Appendix three: The colours in colour order. 6 Dictionary entries.8 Appendix one: Colour phrases.433 Appendix two: The colours in alphabetical order.
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