Discription This dictionary is the first of its kind a treasury of colour words
and phrases, a comprehensive resource for exploring every aspect of colour and
it many applications across the disciplines and through the ages.
Words are drawn from many different worlds including art, artists, craft and
design, painting, printing and sculpture, the decorative arts, gems, fashion,
textiles, cosmetics, physics, maths, astronomy, chemistry, dyes, colourants,
paints, biology, geography, geology, minerals, history, art history, social
history, religion, philosophy, heraldry, mythology and symbolism, languarge,
linguistrics, grammar, slang, literature [inc. the Bible and Shakespeare],
music, theatre, photography, television and film, psychology and human
behaviour, education, politics, commerce, economics, finance, law, travel,