L'Officiel octobre 1957 N°427-428
Rose Marie Le Quellec in Cerulean Emba natural blue mutation mink coat, by Revillon. Turban by Gilbert Orcel. Photo Virginia Thoren.
Rose Marie Le Quellec en manteau de vison de mutation bleu naturel Cerulean Emba, par Revillon. Turban de Gilbert Orcel. Photo Virginia Thoren.
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Are you feeling CERULEAN or are you LIVID?
Welcome to Cool Colours (with a Classics flavour) entry III. You have probably already guessed that these words come from ancient words denoting colours, in this case shades of blue.
Cerulean denotes a sky-blue. However, its ancient parent word could refer to a sky-blue, or a shade darker, even a blue-green. It comes from the lovely Latin adjective caeruleus, which may be connected to the Latin word for heaven or sky, caelum. A beautiful reference that uses the word in ancient literature can be found in Virgil's stunning poem about farming, The Georgics. Virgil describes one of the zones of the sky as 'rigid with blue ice (caerulea glacie)'.
Lividus, the parent word of 'livid' also denotes a shade of blue, but a much darker blue-black. One can see how it has come to become a virtual synonym for 'angry'. The original Latin adjective also carries negative connotations, but of being spiteful and malicious.
Now I have not a coronet in tonight's final hue (sorry, mad Sherlock Holmes fan), but it is a word I am fond of, namely Beryl, a pale green or blue, deriving via Latin beryllus from Greek βήρυλλος (beryllos). In a tragi-comic elegy, poet Propertius imagines the ghost of lover Cynthia visiting him, still wearing her beryl ring. Any keen chemists reading this will spot the connection to the element beryllium.
Despite the many Greek and Latin words that adorn our sweet language of English, English is actually a Germanic language. The word 'blue' finds its origins in blau.
So if you are blue with cold, you are feeling cerulean or feeling cross, you are LIVID.
More on cool colours and Classics soon.
Happy New Year's Eve.
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alright the posting is done, its just more homestuck now, the last little bit and its fucking homestuck smh
fuckin uh. trollsona. yeah thats it. have a goodnight tumblr im not posting for a while then im gonna dump again eventually
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✧・゚:*Today’s magical girl of the night is: Cerulean Blue from Magical Canan!✧・゚:*
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Cerulean Blue Affair (#2d47c8 to #714693)
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Okay, let's talk about the costumes in Goncharov for a hot minute:
While late-career Edith Head is the top billing, her design work draws largely on the House of Myrbor and signature pieces by Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova - specifically, Sofia's red/amber/gold autumnal palette. The short hip-draped skirts, down from a tailored bodice are a direct homage to her time designing for the "Ballet Russe" - the displaces Russian company performing out of Paris. The core theme of displacement is woven into the literal ***fabric*** of the narrative.
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