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  • Die rothe farbe ist also eine elementarische Feuerfarbe, und die blaue ist eine elementarische Wasserfarbe.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • {50} [Resuscitated in vain by Charles Lamb.] {51} J. Grimm (_Wörterbuch_, p. xxvi.): Fällt von ungefähr ein fremdes wort in den brunnen einer sprache, so wird es so lange darin umgetrieben, bis es ihre farbe annimmt, und seiner fremden art zum trotze wie ein heimisches aussieht.

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

  • The "change colors" (farbe ändern) window is too long, and why not offer a decent colorpicker?

    AutoHotkey Community 2008

  • The "change colors" (farbe ändern) window is too long, and why not offer a decent colorpicker?

    AutoHotkey Community 2008

  • The "change colors" (farbe ändern) window is too long, and why not offer a decent colorpicker?

    AutoHotkey Community 2008

  • Versuche iiber den nuzen des Kleesamens in der farbe - kunst.

    Catalogus bibliothecæ historico-naturalis Josephi Banks ... Auctore Jona Dryander, ... 1797

  • -- Klang-farbe), the excuse for using it being that it expresses adequately in one word an idea that in our language takes at least two: this excuse would disappear (and incidentally a much-mispronounced word would be eliminated) if the single word _quality_ were to be adopted as the equivalent of _timbre_.

    Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

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