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Titolo: A.Word.A.Day - Solferino

This meaning is known to you guys?
A.Word.A.Day
solferino
PRONUNCIATION:
(sol-fuh-REE-no)
MEANING:
noun: Purplish red color.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Solferino, a village in northern Italy, where the Battle of 
Solferino was fought on June 24, 1859, resulting in forty thousand 
casualties in a single day. The color was named so because the dye of 
this color was discovered shortly after the battle, and supposedly the 
color represented how the battlefield appeared after the bloodshed.
The immense suffering Henry Dunant witnessed in the Battle of Solferino 
inspired him to campaign, which led to the founding of the Red Cross.
NOTES:
Another color named in this manner is magenta (after Magenta, Italy), 
whose dye was discovered shortly after the Battle of Magenta (June 4, 
1859).
USAGE:
"Next season we will be drenched in solferino, their having exhausted 
rose, magenta and fuchsia in recent years."
Frances Cawthon; Most Kids Don't Need to Know; The Atlanta 
Journal-Constitution; Jun 16, 1986.
www.wordsmith.org
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groetjes Renï¿œe
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 Vincent van Gogh

 This meaning is known to you guys?
never heard of it, but thank you for letting us know.
anyway the magenta name in used in Italian, solferino is not.
Actually "solferino" reminds us of "zolfo", "sulphur", whose colour is 
_yellow_. So it would never come up to mind to think about a reddish 
colour...
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 >Giovanni

 whose dye was discovered shortly after the Battle of Magenta
Very frequently used if you own a CMYK printer :-)

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Maybe red because of the blood that was shed during the battle?
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look here: 
http://www.drbilllong.com/2008WordsIII/Magenta.html
"Solferino is an intense medium purple ink towards magenta; it is 
similar to Lamy Violet but is more towards a magenta color; actually 
Solferino is pretty much in between a darker magenta and a true 
violet."
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 Very frequently used if you own a CMYK printer :-)
I had a battle with my printer today, I won :)
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 Maybe red because of the blood that was shed during the battle?
uh of course...my point is that nobody in Italy would think of red...
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 >Giovanni

 Renee ha scritto:
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Sometimes when words look equal to eachother it is easy to make 
mistakes.
Like in German and Dutch. Believe me, I made all the mistakes. But made 
the other laugh and that is a good thing :).
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 _yellow_.
Not when you burn it.

 Maybe red because of the blood that was shed during the battle?
I had heard the same about "Magenta"...

 Not when you burn it.
green then?
:-?
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 >Giovanni

 green then?
Try it and see...

 Try it and see...
e mo ndo o pio o zorfo?
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 >Giovanni

 uh of course...my point is that nobody in Italy would think of red...
Actually, anyone who's into painting, or is a primary school student, 
knows very well that magenta means red. It's a primary colour, like 
yellow and cyan.
Tabhall

tabhall, 23:04, lunedï¿œ 18 ottobre 2010:
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I knew there were two triads of primary colours (Brit. sp.):
red-green-blue
 for additive synthesis (TV screens, all three make white)
cyan-magenta-yellow
 for subtractive synthesis (printers, all three make black)
Magenta is red+blue, yellow is red+green, cyan is blue+green,
each one taken as a pure color (Am. sp.).
-- 
Humans usually aren't as good writing machine code as they are
at writing Fortran or C, because it is easy to make tiny
mistakes writing machine code.  When writing Fortran or C, it
is easy to make big mistakes.
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g77.info

 colour...
Well, to be honest here in northern Italy - Lombardy/Pavia to be precise
- we say "sulfar" - fiammifero, match - so it can remind the red color
to us.
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Take care now, bye bye then,
Like I told my last wife, I says, "Honey, I never drive faster than I
can see. Besides that, it's all in the reflexes".
Jack Burton

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C'è una foto dello zolfo che brucia su wikipedia, anche se dal vivo fa
più impressione (dove per "impressione" intendo una puzza terribile e
occhi lacrimanti). Fatto in una notte di delirio in gita delle
superiori in Sicilia col pezzo di zolfo comprato come souvenir
sull'Etna...