Bole (color)
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Bole is a color that is a symbolic representation of the color of the trunk of a tree.[citation needed] There is an English word bole meaning the trunk of a tree, but according to the American Heritage Dictionary, this word [1] is simply a homograph/homophone that does not share the etymological origin of the color word bole [2], which derives from Latin bōlus (lump of earth) and refers to a kind of soft fine clay whose reddish-brown varieties are used as pigments, hence its use as a word for a reddish-brown color.
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| Hex triplet | #79443B | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (121, 68, 59) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (30°, 24%, 34%) |
| Source | ISCC-NBS | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The color bole is displayed at right.
This color represents the color of a bole (the trunk of a tree).[citation needed]
Bole is one of the oldest color names in English. The first recorded use of bole as a color name in English was in the year 1386. [1]
It is interesting to note that even though the actual trunks of most trees are a lighter shade of brown than this, when given a set of paints that includes various shades of brown to children to make their "lollypop"-like paintings of a tree, they seem to instinctively choose this color to paint the trunk of the tree.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 190; Color Sample of Bole: Page 33 Plate 5 Color Sample F11
[edit] External links
- [3] ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps--See sample of the color Bole (color sample #43) displayed on indicated page.
