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Lavender (color)
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<h2 id="historical-development-of-the-concept-of-the-color">Historical development of the concept of the color</h2> <p>The first recorded use of the word <i>lavender</i> as a color term in <a href="/facts/English_(language)/tpkxGt7b">English</a> was in 1705.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>Originally, the name <i>lavender</i> only applied to flowers. By 1930, the book <i>A Dictionary of Color</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> identified three major shades of lavender—<i>[floral] lavender</i>, <i>lavender gray</i>, and <i>lavender blue</i>, and in addition a fourth shade of lavender called <i>old lavender</i> (a darker lavender gray) (all four of these shades of lavender are shown below). By 1955, the publication of the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (a color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps), now on the <a href="/facts/Internet/Xw1rVvJU">Internet</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> listed dozens of different shades of lavender. Today, although the color floral lavender (the color of the flower of the lavender plant) remains the standard for lavender, just as there are many shades of <a href="/facts/Pink/fHod9nJE">pink</a> (light <a href="/facts/Red/gLnFAVx4">red</a>, light <a href="/facts/Rose_(color)/ogRMPvnf">rose</a>, and light <a href="/facts/Magenta/dk2zD4hq">magenta</a> colors), there are many shades of lavender (some light magenta, some light purple, [mostly] light violet [as well as some grayish-violet], and some light <a href="/facts/Indigo/ICSGEsqH">indigo</a> colors). </p> <h2 id="variations">Variations</h2> <h3>Lavender blush</h3> <p>Displayed at right is the web color lavender blush. It is a pale pinkish tone of lavender. </p> <h3>Lavender mist (web color lavender)</h3> <p>The color designated as the web color lavender is a very pale <a href="/facts/Tint/CTH7hXvQ">tint</a> of lavender that in other (<a href="/facts/Painting/ygQ47K3b">artistic</a>) contexts may be described as lavender mist. </p> <h3>Languid lavender</h3> <p>Displayed at right is the color languid lavender. The source of this color is the <i>Plochere Color System</i>, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by <a href="/facts/Interior_designer/xuPYsKB1">interior designers</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <h3>Lavender gray</h3> <p>The historical name for this color is lavender gray. It is listed in <i>A Dictionary of Color</i> as one of the three major variations of lavender in 1930 along with <i>lavender blue</i> (shown below) and [floral] <i>lavender</i> (also shown below).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> (This book also designates a fourth shade of lavender, called <i>old lavender</i>, also shown below). This color is similar to Prismacolor colored pencil PC 1026, <i>Greyed Lavender</i>. </p> <h3>Soap</h3> <p>The color soap is displayed at right. <i>Soap</i> is a color formulated by <a href="/facts/Crayola/FHEb5nYb">Crayola</a> in 1994 as one of the colors in its <a href="/facts/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors/tPWGUeNC">Magic Scent</a> specialty box of colors. </p> <p>This color is a representation of soap scented with <a href="/facts/Lavender/WGnWX9Rh">lavender</a>, one of the most popular scents for soap. </p> <h3>Pale lavender</h3> <p>At right is displayed the pale tint of lavender shown as <i>lavender</i> in sample 209 in the <a href="/facts/ISCC-NBS_system/xTjjoTCC">ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p> <h3>Lavender blue</h3> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Periwinkle_(color)/HNSmbATX">Periwinkle (color)</a></p> <p>Lavender blue was listed in <i>A Dictionary of Color</i> as one of the three major variations of lavender in 1930 along with <i>lavender gray</i> (shown above) and [floral] <i>lavender</i> (shown below). It is identified as being the same color as periwinkle. The first use of the term <i>lavender blue</i> as a color term was in 1926.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p> <h3>Light lavender (wisteria)</h3> <p>The color wisteria is displayed at right. <i>Wisteria</i>, a <i>light medium violet</i> color is equivalent to light lavender. </p><p>The Prismacolor colored <a href="/facts/Pencil/HhhT8a3W">pencil</a> PC 956, which used to be called <i>light violet</i> and is now called <i>lilac</i> (the actual color of the colored pencil is equivalent to wisteria rather than <a href="/facts/Lilac_(color)/aTy9SWAk">lilac</a>) is this color. </p> <p>Wisteria in this exact shade is one of the <a href="/facts/Crayola/FHEb5nYb">Crayola</a> crayon colors on the <a href="/facts/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors/tPWGUeNC">list of Crayola crayon colors</a>. It was formulated as a Crayola color in 1993. The first recorded use of <i>wisteria</i> as a color name in <a href="/facts/English_language/tpkxGt7b">English</a> was in 1892.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> </p> <h3>Pink lavender</h3> <p>The color pink lavender is displayed at right. </p><p>The source of this color is the "<a href="/facts/Pantone/YtAH76ju">Pantone</a> Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #14-3207 TPX—Pink Lavender.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p> <h3>Lavender pink</h3> <p> After the introduction of the <a href="/facts/Munsell_color_system/SanJo9rD">Munsell color system</a>, in which purple, described as equivalent to <a href="/facts/Red-violet/Fq1xHj1C">red-violet</a>, is described as one of the five psychological primary colors along with <a href="/facts/Red/gLnFAVx4">red</a>, <a href="/facts/Yellow/KrLNgk4v">yellow</a>, <a href="/facts/Green/gFTac7St">green</a>, and <a href="/facts/Blue/DHWb8MUa">blue</a>, some people began to think of lavender as being somewhat more <a href="/facts/Pinkish/xEFBK3pC">pinkish</a> color. </p> <p>This color can be described as lavender pink or <i>pale pinkish-purple</i> when purple is defined as equivalent to <i>red-violet</i> as artists do. </p><p> This tone of lavender, displayed at right, is the color designated as <i>lavender</i> (color #74) in the <a href="/facts/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors/tPWGUeNC">list of Crayola crayon colors</a>. This version of "lavender" is a lot pinker than the other shades of lavender shown here.</p> <h3>Medium lavender magenta (web color plum)</h3> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Plum_(color)/BVEvwJcK">Plum (color)</a></p> <p>At right is displayed the color medium lavender magenta which is equivalent to the <a href="/facts/Web_color/bvUDhlfX">web color</a> version of plum (<i>pale plum</i>). </p> <p>This color may be regarded both as a tone of lavender since it is a light color between rose and blue and as a light medium tone of magenta because its red and blue values are equal (the color signature of a tone of magenta for computer display). </p> <h3>Heliotrope</h3> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Heliotrope_(color)/kJ6L9kKs">Heliotrope (color)</a></p> <p> The color heliotrope is shown at right. Another name for this color is <i><a href="/facts/Psychedelia/aPaJ3R3C">psychedelic</a> lavender</i> because this color was a popular color often used in the <a href="/facts/Hippie/3ScjoQ4G">hippie</a> psychedelic poster art of the late 1960s for the <a href="/facts/The_Fillmore/Bkr9sGBq">Fillmore Auditorium</a> and the <a href="/facts/Avalon_Ballroom/573nYUvk">Avalon Ballroom</a> in <a href="/facts/San_Francisco/cb9l7hbC">San Francisco</a>. These posters were sold in the <a href="/facts/Head_shop/QuF9uM97">head shops</a> of the <a href="/facts/Haight-Ashbury/dUTQ4zFn">Haight-Ashbury</a> neighborhood and were drawn and produced by such artists as <a href="/facts/Wes_Wilson/AWUHJ533">Wes Wilson</a>, <a href="/facts/Stanley_Mouse/HYpreMAg">Stanley Mouse</a>, <a href="/facts/Rick_Griffin/YYL9Ynsw">Rick Griffin</a>, and <a href="/facts/Victor_Moscoso/3lhBM6u5">Victor Moscoso</a>.</p> <h3>Lavender (floral)</h3> <p>At right is displayed the color Lavender (floral). This color matches the color shown as "lavender" (viewed under a <a href="/facts/Full-spectrum/2s4FBV1l">full-spectrum</a> <a href="/facts/Fluorescent_lamp/R8SlXCyg">fluorescent lamp</a>) in the 1930 book <i>A Dictionary of Color</i> (reference below), the <a href="/facts/World/ceMeHvG3">world</a> standard for color names before the introduction of computers. This color may also be called floral lavender. It is a <i>medium violet</i>. </p><p>This tone of lavender would be the approximate color resulting from a mix of 50% <a href="/facts/Violet_(color)/zcNJGApt">violet</a> paint and 50% <a href="/facts/White/L2qjm4G0">white</a> paint. </p><p>This tone of lavender may be regarded as actual lavender and the other tones displayed in this article can be regarded as all variations on this shade.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> </p><p>This lavender also closely matches the color given as <i>lavender</i> in a basic purple <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081015131139/https://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/PurpleChart.html">color chart</a>[usurped]. </p> <h3>Amethyst</h3> Amethyst as a quaternary color on the RYB color wheel<table><tbody><tr><td> purple</td></tr><tr><td> amethyst</td></tr><tr><td> violet</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The color amethyst is a moderate, transparent <a href="/facts/Violet_(color)/zcNJGApt">violet</a>. Its name is derived from the stone <a href="/facts/Amethyst/CWCPKKrk">amethyst</a>, a form of <a href="/facts/Quartz/4n86tE2G">quartz</a>. Amethyst is the birthstone for those born in February. </p><p>The first recorded use of <i>amethyst</i> as a color name in <a href="/facts/English_language/tpkxGt7b">English</a> was in 1572.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p> <p>Though the color of natural amethyst varies from <a href="/facts/Purple/PVL40QPo">purple</a> to <a href="/facts/Yellow/KrLNgk4v">yellow</a>, the amethyst color referred to here is the moderate purple color most commonly associated with amethyst stones. There is disagreement as to the cause of the purple color of the amethyst stone. Some believe that the color is due to the presence of <a href="/facts/Manganese/j9ELd1TL">manganese</a>, while others have suggested that the amethyst color could be from <a href="/facts/Iron/QK1JYy8E">ferric</a> <a href="/facts/Thiocyanate/S438CJp8">thiocyanate</a> or <a href="/facts/Sulfur/IK0amTfM">sulfur</a> found in amethyst stones.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> </p> <h3>Deep lavender (web color medium purple)</h3> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Purple/PVL40QPo">Purple</a></p> <p>Displayed at right is the web color medium purple which is equivalent to <i>deep medium violet</i> or deep lavender. </p> <h3>Lavender purple (purple mountain majesty)</h3> <p>Displayed at right is the color purple mountain majesty, a Crayola color since 1993. This color may be regarded as a <i>medium lavender gray</i>. </p><p>This color was the color called <i>lavender</i> in Crayola crayons before 1958, when Crayola switched to calling the color shown above as <i>lavender pink</i> as being <i>lavender</i>. See the website "Lost Crayola Crayon Colors".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> Because of that, another name for this color is lavender purple. </p> <p>This color is a representation of the way <a href="/facts/Mountain/wboT5GJc">mountains</a> look when they are far away. </p> <h3>English lavender</h3> <p>Displayed at right is the color English lavender. </p><p><i>English lavender</i> is a medium light tone of grayish pinkish lavender. </p> <p>The source of this color is the "<a href="/facts/Pantone/YtAH76ju">Pantone</a> Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #17-3617 TPX—English Lavender.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> </p> <h3>Twilight lavender</h3> <p>The color twilight lavender is displayed at right. <i>Twilight lavender</i> is a color formulated by <a href="/facts/Crayola/FHEb5nYb">Crayola</a> in 1990 as one of the colors in its <a href="/facts/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors/tPWGUeNC">Silver Swirls</a> specialty box of metallic colors. </p><p>Although this is supposed to be a <i><a href="/facts/Metallic_color/Wk7xFCgn">metallic</a></i> color, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a computer. </p> <h3>Old lavender</h3> <p>The dark lavender gray color displayed at right is called old lavender. It is a <i>dark grayish-violet</i>. </p><p>The first recorded use of <i>old lavender</i> as a color name in <a href="/facts/English_language/tpkxGt7b">English</a> was in the year 1924.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="in-culture">In culture</h2> <h3>Fashion</h3> <ul><li>In the formal rules of <a href="/facts/Mourning/fE5KYIww">mourning</a> dress in <a href="/facts/Georgian_era/mJ524Wsr">Georgian</a>, <a href="/facts/Victorian_era/HQxGp7wh">Victorian</a>, and <a href="/facts/Edwardian_era/GxyzQQqe">Edwardian</a> Britain, lavender was one of the few colors generally considered acceptable for women's clothing during the period of half-mourning, during which the bereaved was considered to still be in mourning and required to dress in sober, muted tones, but was not expected to wear the all-black garments of full mourning.</li> <li>Lavender roses are symbolic of "love at first sight".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a></li> <li>In 1995 actress <a href="/facts/Uma_Thurman/l3M6cATP">Uma Thurman</a> wore a <a href="/facts/Lavender_Prada_dress_of_Uma_Thurman/QNhp02Vv">notable lavender colored dress by Prada</a> to the Academy Award ceremonies, where she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.</li></ul> <h3>LGBTQ</h3> <ul><li>Lavender is a color that can represent the <a href="/facts/LGBT_community/LpXxRsVU">LGBTQ community</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a></li> <li>Just as in the 1890s <a href="/facts/Mauve/J2oJ7DSu">mauve</a> symbolized homosexuality, the tone of lavender described above as <i>[true] lavender</i> or <i>floral lavender</i> became the symbol of <a href="/facts/Homosexuality/gNy8Nvl0">homosexuality</a> in the 1950s and 1960s. The gay anthem <i><a href="/facts/Das_lila_Lied/Gwb3hTfb">Das lila Lied</a></i> was released in 1920 with the line "we only love lavender night...". In 1923, <a href="/facts/Harold_Hersey/tfSovNJH">Harold Hersey</a> wrote a tongue-in-cheek poem called "<a href="/facts/The_Lavender_Cowboy/ICfs7f9b">The Lavender Cowboy</a>" about an unmanly cowboy with "only two hairs on his chest". <a href="/facts/Se%C3%A1n_O%27Casey/lxUqgFwP">Seán O'Casey</a> wrote in 1928, "I am very sorry... that I have hurt the refined sentimentalities of C. W. Allen by neglecting to use the lavender... language of the 18th and 19th centuries." <a href="/facts/Cole_Porter/qVcdskjW">Cole Porter</a>'s 1929 song "I'm a Gigolo" went: "I'm a famous gigolo, And of lavender, my nature's got just a dash in it." A 1935 dictionary of slang reported "streak of lavender," meant an effeminate man or a sissy, a term used in 1926 by <a href="/facts/Carl_Sandburg/omVNmNDe">Carl Sandburg</a> to describe young <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> In the 1960s, <a href="/facts/Homophile/GFosuGBL">homophiles</a> were sometimes referred to as the <i>lavender boys</i> (this term is still used by some people (both gay and non-gay) to refer to <a href="/facts/Gay/PP0DUqGT">gays</a>). A <i>lavender convention</i> is a convention of homosexuals. A <a href="/facts/Heterosexual/HDLc2Mna">heterosexual</a> who has some homosexual tendencies is described as someone with a <i>dash of lavender</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> In the 1970s <a href="/facts/Pink/fHod9nJE">pink</a> became more often associated with homosexuality because of the use of the <a href="/facts/Pink_triangle/1egbEhMf">pink triangle</a> as a symbol of <a href="/facts/Gay_liberation/8jUVl396">gay liberation</a>. However, gays of the <a href="/facts/Baby_boom_generation/clpdls7s">baby boom generation</a> still think of lavender as the gayest color. According to some sources, the reason lavender symbolizes homosexuality is because it is the color that is obtained when <a href="/facts/Pink/fHod9nJE">pink</a> (the color symbolizing <a href="/facts/Girl/lBCKq98G">girls</a>) is mixed with <a href="/facts/Baby_blue/RxGbJHLg">baby blue</a> (the color symbolizing <a href="/facts/Boy/4u7yCcD7">boys</a>).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a></li> <li>Lavender <a href="/facts/Rose/00sLwePY">roses</a> are sometimes given by <a href="/facts/LGBT/WhVPgNDn">LGBT</a> people to each other on <a href="/facts/Valentine%27s_Day/63j6qsN8">Valentine's Day</a> or may be given to those entering into a <a href="/facts/Same-sex_marriage/J2dpSgaV">same-sex marriage</a>.</li> <li>A <a href="/facts/Lavender_marriage/DSorTL86">lavender marriage</a> is a <a href="/facts/Marriage/foMxzuxl">marriage</a> between a man and a woman in which one, or both, parties are, or are assumed to be, homosexual. Usually, but not always, both parties are assumed to be complicit in a public deception to hide their homosexuality (although in some lavender marriages, the marriage partners may be <a href="/facts/Bisexual/An3RSnKG">bisexual</a>).</li> <li>In the <a href="/facts/Bandana_code/gyDcbaXK">bandana code</a> of the <a href="/facts/Leather_subculture/BMEPl7qb">gay leather subculture</a>, wearing a lavender bandana symbolizes that the wearer has a <a href="/facts/Sexual_fetishism/f2UrwNMN">fetish</a> for dressing in <a href="/facts/Drag_(clothing)/YxmIF57S">drag</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lavender_(magazine)/c84de5D0">Lavender</a></i> is the name of an <a href="/facts/LGBT/WhVPgNDn">LGBT</a> magazine in <a href="/facts/Minnesota/ncgVuC4Q">Minnesota</a>.</li> <li>The Lavender Dragon Society was a club for <a href="/facts/Gay/PP0DUqGT">gay</a> <a href="/facts/Asian_Americans/LEbUc3Gb">Asian Americans</a> in the <a href="/facts/San_Francisco_Bay_Area/MG53NJ36">San Francisco Bay Area</a> in the late 1990s and early 2000s.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a></li> <li>The Lavender Families Resource Network, formerly known as the Mothers' National Defense Fund, was a <a href="/facts/Seattle/7lYIrCa6">Seattle</a>-based organization started in 1974 with the aim to provide lesbian and bisexual women with resources and information relating to child-rearing, custody and adoption issues, and donor insemination.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Lavender_Graduation/dqbgabPW">Lavender Graduation</a> is an event that occurs annually at many colleges and universities where <a href="/facts/LGBT/WhVPgNDn">LGBT</a> students get their own graduation ceremony to celebrate their identities and achievements.</li> <li>The study of language used specifically by LGBT speakers is known as <a href="/facts/Lavender_linguistics/TXP65yeF">lavender linguistics</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/facts/LGBTQIA/WhVPgNDn">LGBTQIA</a> caucus of the <a href="/facts/Green_Party_of_the_United_States/qG9jzWQR">Green Party of the United States</a> is the Lavender Greens.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a></li> <li>The <a href="/facts/Lavender_scare/epD56WnP">lavender scare</a> refers to the fear and <a href="/facts/Persecution/lTM5uvsM">persecution</a> of <a href="/facts/Homosexuality/gNy8Nvl0">homosexuals</a> in the 1950s in the United States, which paralleled the <a href="/facts/Anti-communism/bJuolzxo">anti-communist</a> campaign known as <a href="/facts/McCarthyism/sv21SjjU">McCarthyism</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lavender_(2019_film)/XUjA3yWx">Lavender</a></i> is the name of a 2019 American short LGBT romantic drama film directed by <a href="/facts/Matthew_Puccini/YI0yQt9R">Matthew Puccini</a>.</li> <li>A <a href="/facts/Synonym/a3BgMcdu">synonym</a> used for the original <i><a href="/facts/Gay_liberation/8jUVl396">gay liberation</a></i> movement which began in 1969 is referring to the movement as the <i><a href="/facts/Lavender_revolution/8jUVl396">lavender revolution</a></i>.</li> <li>During the 1960s feminism movement, lesbians were rejected by the then head of the <a href="/facts/National_Organization_for_Women/wYSJbspm">National Organization for Women</a>, <a href="/facts/Betty_Friedan/BAJ1SMgW">Betty Friedan</a>, calling them the "<a href="/facts/Lavender_Menace/kbks1gEG">Lavender Menace</a>". These lesbian radical feminists adopted the name for their own informal group, consisting of many members of the <a href="/facts/Gay_Liberation_Front/UCvpmjoL">Gay Liberation Front</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/facts/Lavender_Panthers/YQ3a1pIa">Lavender Panthers</a> was a <a href="/facts/Gay_rights_activist/M6g810rE">gay rights activist</a> group in <a href="/facts/San_Francisco/cb9l7hbC">San Francisco</a> during the early 1970s, led by the Reverend <a href="/facts/Ray_Broshears/YDUBeIDM">Ray Broshears</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Lavender_Country/mKtJrbTs">Lavender Country</a> was an American country music band whose 1973 self-titled album was made up entirely of gay-themed songs.</li></ul> <h3>Music</h3> <ul><li>"<a href="/facts/Lavender_Blue/gdWSzPdn">Lavender Blue</a>", originally an English folk song dating to the 17th century. This song became very popular during the 1950s rock and roll era, when it was sung by <a href="/facts/Solomon_Burke/AYBkk8Qx">Solomon Burke</a>. A hit version of the song, sung by <a href="/facts/Burl_Ives/XXr1u19B">Burl Ives</a>, was featured in the <a href="/facts/The_Walt_Disney_Company/R8kCbAVc">Walt Disney</a> movie <i><a href="/facts/So_Dear_to_My_Heart/8BkKsYIe">So Dear to My Heart</a></i> and the 2015 film <i><a href="/facts/Cinderella_(2015_American_film)/9T5Hx9t4">Cinderella</a></i>.</li> <li>"Lavender" is a song by <a href="/facts/Marillion/23zggKPt">Marillion</a> on the 1985 album <i><a href="/facts/Misplaced_Childhood/bh92xmPR">Misplaced Childhood</a></i>. It quotes the folk song "Lavender Blue" in its lyrics.</li> <li>"Lavender" is a song by <a href="/facts/October_Noir/3z27kJCs">October Noir</a> on the 2019 album <i>Thirteen</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a></li> <li>"<a href="/facts/Lavender_Haze/rzbhwqrJ">Lavender Haze</a>" is a song by <a href="/facts/Taylor_Swift/gdDeCTku">Taylor Swift</a> on the 2022 album <i><a href="/facts/Midnights/pK3VePR4">Midnights</a></i>.</li></ul> <h3>Religion</h3> <ul><li>In <a href="/facts/Theosophy_(Blavatskian)/7I4EqMbt">Theosophy</a> and the <a href="/facts/Ascended_Master_Teachings/xvn65TD6">Ascended Master Teachings</a> (a group of religions based on Theosophy), since the color <a href="/facts/Violet_(color)/zcNJGApt">violet</a> represents the <a href="/facts/Deity/doCvhDHj">deity</a> <a href="/facts/St._Germain_(Theosophy)/KjIK9ppR">St. Germain</a>, and lavender is simply a light tone of violet, lavender as well as violet objects may be placed on the altar to St. Germain.</li> <li>The <a href="/facts/Christianity/nKyJHlqq">Christian</a> holiday of <a href="/facts/Easter/LYPGCQge">Easter</a> is represented by lavender and <a href="/facts/Yellow/KrLNgk4v">yellow</a> because the <a href="/facts/Crocus/C04GJYj7">crocus</a> flower, which is lavender and yellow, blooms in <a href="/facts/Europe/DTAtrKfh">Europe</a> in the spring.</li></ul> <h3>Film, television and video games</h3> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Ladies_in_Lavender/8F762Et6">Ladies in Lavender</a></i> is a 2004 film by <a href="/facts/Charles_Dance/XDyvBPuM">Charles Dance</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Lavender_Town/Y4WP4Xu8">Lavender Town</a> is a purple-tinted town in the <a href="/facts/Kanto_(Pok%C3%A9mon)/kWjxWw8J">Kanto</a> region in the <i><a href="/facts/Pok%C3%A9mon/g1cjJz0p">Pokémon</a></i> video games. It is well known for being a graveyard for Pokémon, and the many ghosts that haunt it.</li></ul> <h3>Numismatics</h3> <p>The <a href="/facts/Reserve_Bank_of_India/zG1bMYY0">Reserve Bank of India</a> (RBI) issued a lavender colored banknote of <a href="/facts/Indian_100-rupee_note/5tMe2wWJ">₹100</a> denomination under <a href="/facts/Mahatma_Gandhi_New_Series/ASq6hQYx">Mahatma Gandhi New Series</a>. The bank note measures 142 mm × 66 mm. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/LGBT_symbols/Xdfrn1vW">LGBT symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Lilac_(color)/aTy9SWAk">Lilac</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_colors/mFdEBmgQ">List of colors</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Mauve/J2oJ7DSu">Mauve</a></li></ul> <p>Attribution </p> <ul><li> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/facts/Public_domain/YWKMDKw4">public domain</a>: <a href="/facts/Hugh_Chisholm/2vWblUBe">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). "Amethyst". <i><a href="/facts/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition/mPElbCRY">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i> (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill See discussion of color lavender, Page 163; See color Sample of Lavender—Page 109 Plate 43 Color Sample C5 (Note that the color sample of lavender shown in the book A Dictionary of Color (the world standard for color matching before the introduction of computers) matches the shade of lavender displayed above under the heading "Lavender (floral)" ) <a href="/wiki/Book" target="_blank">/wiki/Book</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2024-04-27. <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lavender" target="_blank">https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lavender</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>A. Maerz; M. Rea Paul (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 197. OCLC 1150631. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)—Color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps—See various shades of the color Lavender displayed on indicated page: [1][usurped] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170822091612/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-l.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20170822091612/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-l.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Plochere Color System: Archived 2010-08-21 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://colors.bravo9.com/nbs-iscc-p-plochere-color-system/list/all/" target="_blank">http://colors.bravo9.com/nbs-iscc-p-plochere-color-system/list/all/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 197 <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Retsof online version of ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names – La through Lz". 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Retrieved 2009-12-07. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170822091612/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-l.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20170822091612/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-l.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196—Lavender blue shown as one of the three major variations of lavender under heading lavender; Page 190—Lavender blue is listed as blue-lavender, first use of the color term is identified as 1926, and the color is identified with periwinkle. <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 207; Color Sample of Wisteria: Page 105 Plate 41 Color Sample E8 <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Pantone TPX Pantone Color Finder—Type the words "Pink Lavender" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color will appear: <a href="http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Color Sample of Lavender—Page 109 Plate 43 Color Sample C5 (The color sample of lavender shown in A Dictionary of Color matches the tone of lavender displayed above under the heading "Lavender (floral)") <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 189; Color Sample of Amethyst: Page 113 Plate 45 Color Sample J8 <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Chisholm 1911. - Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Amethyst". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>"lost color lists – (bring back gold ochre!)". Maxpages.com. June 24, 2004. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved September 27, 2021. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071012151724/http://maxpages.com/lostcrayolas/lost_color_lists" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20071012151724/http://maxpages.com/lostcrayolas/lost_color_lists</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Pantone TPX Pantone Color Finder—Type the words "English Lavender" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color will appear: <a href="http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 200 <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><p>"Rose color Meanings – Meaning of Rose Colors". rkdn.org. 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