Heliotrope (color)
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Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the colour of the heliotrope flower.
The first recorded use of heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882.[1]
Variations
Heliotrope gray
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The color heliotrope gray is displayed at right. The first recorded use of heliotrope gray as a colour name in English was in 1912.[2]
Heliotrope magenta
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Old heliotrope
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At right is displayed the colour old heliotrope.
Another name for this colour is old helio.
The first recorded use of old helio as a colour name in English was in 1926.[3]
In culture
- The color has been widely referenced as a characterization, the colour of key plot objects, or as flavor text in many works:
- Heliotrope was a popular colour reference of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, script writers of Hancock's Half Hour.
- In James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "heliotrope" is the answer to the Maggies' riddle.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Throughout the chapter, the word "heliotrope" is disguised a number of times, hidden either in anagrams, riddles, puns, or obscure allusions.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the Polyjuice Potion brewed in order to disguise Hermione Granger as Mafalda Hopkirk is described as having a "pleasant heliotrope colour."
- The periorbital purplish discoloration occurring in dermatomyositis is called the "Heliotrope rash" after the colour.
- Heliotrope was among the handful of "half-mourning" colours worn by Victorians during the last stage of mourning.[4]
- "Heliotrope" is the title of the fourth track on At the Drive-In's 1999 EP Vaya.
- Heliotrope was referenced as a health status condition of the service droid Kryten in the Red Dwarf Series V episode Terrorform.
- "Heliotrope Bouquet" is a slow drag two step by Scott Joplin (with contributions from Louis Chauvin) composed in 1907.
- In the TV series Yellowjackets, the members of the new religious movement surrounding Lottie Matthews wear heliotrope robes; as she says, "We make the dye ourselves from the flowers used to treat wounds."[5][6][7]
See also
References
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- ↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Colour, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196; Color Sample of Heliotrope: Page 131 Plate 54 Colour Sample C10
- ↑ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Colour, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill, Page 196; Colour Sample of Heliotrope Gray: Page 111, Plate 44, Colour Sample C3
- ↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill Page 200; Color Sample of Old Helio: Page 113 Plate 45 Color Sample J9
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