jauneadj.
/dʒɔːn/ Obsolete except as French.
Yellow.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective]
yelloweOE
blaykec1400
jaune1430
flawc1450
jaundiced1640
flaxed1652
flave1657
flavous1666
blake1691
gambogian1837
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. xx 36 b/1 If they want freshnesse of colour And haue their faces Iawne.
c1475 Partenay 971 Wine of Tourain, And of Bewme also, Which iawne colour applied noght vnto.
1859 C. Reade Love me Little i I won't be known by my colours like a bird. I have made up my mind to wear the jaune.
Compounds
In the names of pigments, etc.:
jaune antique n. a variegated, crystalline terra-cotta of Wedgwood ware of a rich saffron mixed with black.
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1875 E. Meteyard Wedgwood Handbk. 22 He produced other mixtures which he called ‘Holy Door’ and ‘Jaune Antique’.
jaune brill(i)ant n. cadmium yellow (alone or in a mixture with white lead).
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments
yelloweOE
motey1353
arsenica1393
orpimentc1395
auripigmenta1398
ochre1440
pink1464
massicot1472
yellow ochre1482
orpine1548
painter's gold1591
spruce1668
giallolino1728
king's yellow1738
Naples yellow1738
stil de grain1769
yellow earth1794
queen's yellow1806
chromate1819
chrome yellow1819
Oxford ochre1827
Indian yellow1831
Italian pink1835
Montpellier yellow1835
Turner1835
quercitron lake1837
jaune brillant1851
zinc chromate1851
zinc sulphide1851
brush-gold1861
zooxanthin1868
Oxford chrome1875
aureolin1879
cadmium yellow1879
Cassel yellow1882
Neapolitan yellow1891
zinc chrome1892
Mars1899
jaune jonquille1910
1851 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. V. 57 Sulphide of Cadmium.—Found native in the form of Greenockite. Prepared as a pigment known by the name of Jaune brillant.
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 252/3 Artists tube oil colours... Jaune Brilliant.
1924 F. W. Weber Artists' Pigments 30 Mixtures of Cadmium Yellow and Lead White are offered under the name Jaune Brilliant.
1928 N. Heaton Outl. Paint Technol. 382 Jaune Brilliant... Imitation Naples yellow (mixture of cadmium and white lead).
1948 R. E. Kirk & D. F. Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. II. 736 Cadmium sulfide (cadmium yellow, jaune brilliant).
jaune jonquille n. (see quot. 1960).
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments
yelloweOE
motey1353
arsenica1393
orpimentc1395
auripigmenta1398
ochre1440
pink1464
massicot1472
yellow ochre1482
orpine1548
painter's gold1591
spruce1668
giallolino1728
king's yellow1738
Naples yellow1738
stil de grain1769
yellow earth1794
queen's yellow1806
chromate1819
chrome yellow1819
Oxford ochre1827
Indian yellow1831
Italian pink1835
Montpellier yellow1835
Turner1835
quercitron lake1837
jaune brillant1851
zinc chromate1851
zinc sulphide1851
brush-gold1861
zooxanthin1868
Oxford chrome1875
aureolin1879
cadmium yellow1879
Cassel yellow1882
Neapolitan yellow1891
zinc chrome1892
Mars1899
jaune jonquille1910
1910 B. Rackham Bk. of Porcelain iv. 56 On a ground of yellow (jaune jonquille) are rococo-bordered panels.
1929 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 351/2 Turquoise blue,..yellow (jaune jonquille), and green grounds made their appearance in 1752, 1753 and 1756.
1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 234/2 Jaune jonquille, a yellow ground colour introduced at Sèvres in 1753. It is of great intensity and beauty and somewhat different from the shade of yellow employed at Meissen.
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