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Color:
Byzantium


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Colors with the same hue:
Quartz
Byzantine
Brilliant rose
Delicate Mauve
Shampoo
Similar colors:
Midnight
Plum
Imperial Purple
Boysenberry
Passionfruit
Eminence
Blackberry
Sugar plum
Pansy purple
Tyrian purple
Rouge
English violet
Deep Plum
Pomp and Power
Flirt
Fandango
Blazing Purple
Patriarch
Purple 
Russian violet
Malbec
Nightshade
Purpureus
Eggplant
Mardi Gras
Mulberry
Royal purple
Ultraviolet
Dark purple
Faded Purple
Words evoked by this color:
byzantine,  byzantium,  constantinople,  unfamiliar,  dynastic,  habsburg,  tsar,  tsarist,  domitian,  nebulochaotic,  neb,  assaulted,  blemish,  dislocation,  dislocated,  disfigured,  beaten,  eggplant,  moussaka,  aubergine,  waldorf,  merlot,  meritage,  boar,  firenze,  maenad,  bacchanal,  cordoba,  cordova,  tallahassee,  seminole,  mendoza,  bole,  umberto,  umbo,  havana,  claret,  cluny,  clare,  roue,  c'est,  dictionnaire,  corneille,  rouen,  wrought,  blacksmith,  andiron,  iron,  farrier,  ferro
Literary analysis:
A close look at the provided texts reveals that none of the examples use “Byzantium” in the sense of a color at all—instead, they almost uniformly refer to the ancient city or empire. While “Byzantium” is known in modern contexts as a deep, rich purple hue full of connotations of opulence and antiquity, none of the texts here employ it to describe a visual quality or a tint; for instance, in [1] the term is used metaphorically to indicate an emerging presence rather than to evoke a particular color, and all the other examples similarly invoke Byzantium’s historical or political significance rather than its chromatic identity.
  1. He saw Byzantium pressing more and more into the foreground--and that he could not suffer.
    — from A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 by Felix Dahn


Colors associated with the word:
Byzantium
Purple 
Amethyst 
Plum 
Mauve
Lavender 
Lilac
Violet 
Eggplant
Wine
Grape
Mulberry 
Aubergine
Orchid 
Magenta 
Fuchsia 
Royal purple
Tyrian purple
Words with similar colors:
bishop,  grappa,  archbishop,  plumb,  byzantine,  episcopal,  figs.,  porphyry,  bishopric,  dionysian,  episcopate,  grimace,  violate,  viola,  slurp,  pur,  damson,  repent,  epilepsy,  grape
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