Citrine (colour) than it is today and could be "reddish or brownish yellow; or orange; or amber (distinguished from yellow)". In today's English citrine as a colour is mostly confined to the contexts of (1) gemstones, including quartz, and (2) some animal and plant names. E.g., the citrine wagtail ("Motacilla citreola"), an Asian bird species with golden-yellow plumage, or the citrine warbler, citrine canary-flycatcher, citrine forktail, etc. Citrine (colour) Citrine is a colour, the most common reference for which is certain coloured varieties of quartz which are a medium deep shade of golden yellow. Citrine has been summarized at various times as
Lilac (color) Lilac (color) Lilac is a colour that is a pale violet tone representing the average colour of most lilac flowers. It might also be described as dark mauve or light purple. The colours of some lilac flowers may be equivalent to the colours shown below as "pale lilac", "rich lilac", or "deep lilac". There are other lilac flowers that are coloured red-violet. The first recorded use of "lilac" as an English colour name was in 1775. The "lilac" colour has a specific book published in 2018 by Coloratura Publisher. Pale lilac is the colour that is represented as "lilac" in