Cerise ( or ; ) is a deep to vivid reddish

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Etymology

The colour or name comes from the French word , meaning "cherry". Cherry Stella444

According to the

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, the first recorded use of ''cerise'' as a colour name in

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was in ''

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'' of November 30, 1858. This date of 1858 as the date of first use of the color name is also mentioned in the 1930 book ''A Dictionary of Color''. However, it was used at least as early as 1845 in a book of crochet patterns.

Variations of cerise

There are various tones of cerise.

Hollywood cerise

In the 1950s, a popular brand of

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, ''Venus Paradise'', had a colored pencil called Hollywood cerise which was this color. Before being renamed ''Hollywood cerise'' in the 1940s, the color had been known, since its inception in 1922, simply as Hollywood.

Deep cerise

Displayed at the right is the deep tone of cerise called ''cerise'' in

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crayons (see the List of Crayola crayon colors). The color name ''cerise'' has been used for this color since 1993 by Crayola.

Irresistible

The color irresistible is displayed at right. The color name irresistible first came into use in the ''Plochere Color System'', a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by

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s. The normalized color coordinates for irresistible are identical to raspberry rose, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1950 in the '' Descriptive Color Names Dictionary''.

References

External links

Crayola crayon history, including Cerise, added in 1993
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