Cerise ( or ; ) is a deep to vivid reddish
pink
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.
Etymology
The colour or name comes from the
French word , meaning "cherry".
According to the
Oxford English Dictionary
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, the first recorded use of ''cerise'' as a colour name in
English
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was in ''
The Times
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'' of November 30, 1858. This date of 1858 as the date of first use of the color name is also mentioned in the 1930 book ''A Dictionary of Color''. However, it was used at least as early as 1845 in a book of crochet patterns.
Variations of cerise
There are various tones of cerise.
Hollywood cerise
In the 1950s, a popular brand of
colored pencils
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, ''Venus Paradise'', had a colored pencil called Hollywood cerise which was this color. Before being renamed ''Hollywood cerise'' in the 1940s, the color had been known, since its inception in 1922, simply as Hollywood.
Deep cerise
Displayed at the right is the deep tone of cerise called ''cerise'' in
Crayola
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crayons (see the
List of Crayola crayon colors).
The color name ''cerise'' has been used for this color since 1993 by Crayola.
Irresistible
The color irresistible is displayed at right.
The color name irresistible first came into use in the ''Plochere Color System'', a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by
interior designer
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s.
The
normalized color coordinates for irresistible are identical to
raspberry rose, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1950 in the ''
Descriptive Color Names Dictionary''.
See also
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Fuchsia (color)
Fuchsia (, ) is a vivid pinkish-purplish- red color, named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.
The color fuchsia was f ...
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Rose (color)
Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel, on which it is at hue angle of 330 degrees.
Rose is one of the tertiary colors on the HSV (RGB) color wheel. The complementary col ...
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Lists of colors
These are the lists of colors;
* List of colors: A–F
* List of colors: G–M
* List of colors: N–Z
* List of colors (compact)
* List of colors by shade
* List of color palettes
* List of Crayola crayon colors
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References
External links
Crayola crayon history, including Cerise, added in 1993
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Quaternary colors
Shades of violet