gozelinge

[prettygoodword]

gozelinge - n. pale yellow-green.


Only appears in Elizabethan color lists, and Google has exactly two hits -- one of them explaining that there were no solid green pre-Industrial dyes, thus names for shades such as this. Add salt as necessary.

I still like the sound of it, though.

---L.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

OED remarks on it attrib. and comb. to mean a shade of green (gosling-color, gosling-green). Longfellow used gosling-green (1835) in Outre-Mer: The nice little man in gosling-green.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Longfellow! He would. He'd know it, certainly.

---L.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

I'm still puzzled by that gosling, though. The off-yellow color of their down?

---L.