murrey

• They vary exceedingly in colour, from yellow to brown, murrey, and gray, but otherwise do not differ from ordinary ochres In enamel they may be used for browns and dull reds 47. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• It is of a murrey or chocolate colour, and forms cool tints of a purple hue with white. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• Not brilliant, but rich and powerful, this purple varies in hue according to the mode of manufacture from deep crimson to murrey or dark purple: it also differs in degrees of transparency. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• In smaller proportions, red gives to lighter browns the names of bay, chestnut, sorrel, &c Owing to confused nomenclature, most of the colours and pigments of this class have been assigned to other denominations--puce, murrey, morelle, chocolate, columbine, pavonazzo, &c.;, being variously ranked among reds, browns, and purples. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• The sword-bearer was to be provided with a gown of murrey, and a deputation from the civic guilds, to the number of 410 persons, clad in gowns of the same colour, was to join the cavalcade. —  London and the Kingdom - Volume I

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