philamot / philomot / filemot / feuillemorte / feuille morte / feuillemort

philamot or philomot or filemot or feuillemorte or feuillemort or feuille morte (FIL-uh-mot) - adj., the color of a dead or faded leaf, a dull orangish brown.


This was a deeper rabbit hole than I realized. The word actually on my list was the first spelling above, and it took a while to click through all the entries that defined each spelling as an alternative form of the next. Or to put it another way, they're in reverse chronological order of development, from the original French, where it literally meant (and still does) "dead leaf". Honestly, the definition of "the color of a dead leaf" is not very helpful -- they come in so many hues.


Thanks, WikiMedia!

---L.