Signification of Colors.

The Living Age 733, 12.6.1858

The following, which I recently met with in an old common-place book, may not prove an uninteresting note, particularly as in some parts of the country certain colors have still a proverbial signification, such as blue, true; yellow, jealous; green, forsaken, &c.:

*) A dark reddish-brown, called by the heralds sanguine.Ash color ... Repentance.
Black ... Mournefull.
Blue ... Truth.
Carnation ... Desire.
Crimson ... Cruelty.
Greene ... Hopeful.
Mouse color ... Fearefull.
Murry* ... Secret Love.
Orange color ... Spitefulnesse.
Purple ... Nobility.
Sky color ... Heavenly.
Tawny ... Forsaken.
White ... Innocency.
Willow Color ... Despaire.
Yellow ... Jealousie.
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