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prettygoodwordlovat (LUHV-uht) - n., a dusty blue-green color; a grayish blend of colors, especially of green, used in plaids.
You've probably don't recognize the name but have seen this color in plaids -- though actually, that's only one definition of this rather vauge term, and I suspect the vagueness is in part because it might really mean the pallet and was transferred to one or more components of it. In any case, the term dates to 1907 and was probably from one Thomas Alexander Fraser, Lord Lovat, (1802–75) who popularized tweeds in muted colors as hunters' dress.
Anyway, thus ends this unexpected theme week -- I hadn't intended to make it one, but the first three words on my list were colors, and well ...
---L.
You've probably don't recognize the name but have seen this color in plaids -- though actually, that's only one definition of this rather vauge term, and I suspect the vagueness is in part because it might really mean the pallet and was transferred to one or more components of it. In any case, the term dates to 1907 and was probably from one Thomas Alexander Fraser, Lord Lovat, (1802–75) who popularized tweeds in muted colors as hunters' dress.
Anyway, thus ends this unexpected theme week -- I hadn't intended to make it one, but the first three words on my list were colors, and well ...
---L.
