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Wine red

Wine red

The color wine, or wine red (compare West Frisian: wynread, Afrikaans: wynrooi, Italian: vino rosso, Swedish: vinröd, Finnish: viininpunainen, etc), also called bordeaux, vinous, or vinaceous, is a dark shade of red. It is a representation of the typical color of red wine.

The first recorded use of wine as a color name in English was in 1705. The word bordeaux is also sometimes used to describe this color.