Raspberry is a

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that resembles the color of raspberries. It is a bright, vivid shade of red. The first recorded use of ''raspberry'' as a color name in English was in 1892. The colour is sourced by Maerz and Paul below.

Variations

French raspberry

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Raspberry rose

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'' is a deep tone of raspberry. The first recorded use of raspberry rose as a color name in English was in 1950, in the ''

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for raspberry rose are identical to irresistible, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1948, in the ''Plochere Color System''.

Raspberry glacé

The color raspberry glacé is displayed on the right. It is a medium shade of raspberry that is used in

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, fashion, design and art. It also resembles the colour of luscious hue of ripe rasberries. The first recorded use of ''raspberry glacé'' as a color name in English was in 1926. The source of this color is the ''Plochere Color System'', a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by

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for raspberry glacé are identical to mauve taupe, first recorded as a color name in English in 1925.

Dark raspberry

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''Dark raspberry'' is a color that resembles the color of a black raspberry. File:Black Raspberries.jpg, Black raspberries File:Colorful Black Raspberry Ice Cream Cone (2420648653).jpg, Black raspberry ice cream ''Dark raspberry'' is also the color of regular raspberries that have been boiled down into raspberry jam or sauce with sugar to use for

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topping, etc.

In culture

Music

* Perhaps the most famous mention of the colour raspberry was by

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, in his popular song, " Raspberry Beret".

Vexillology

* The colour raspberry has been used in

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s and uniforms.The Russian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (2):Cavalry 1799-1814 (Men-At-Arms Series, 189)
by Philip Haythornthwaite and Bryan Fosten,

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, 2010, (page 36)

References

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