Colourful language

I'm always interested in finding unusual words, some archaic, some lost, some invented. So I was quite happy when I stumbled across The Phrontistery. Here is a taste of what they offer. Today's topic is colour

Word aeneous albicant badious beige caesious cardinal eau-de-nil eburnean ferruginous filemot gamboge glaucous haematic heliotrope ianthine ibis jacinthe jessamy lateritious leucochroic

Definition shining bronze colour whitish; becoming white chestnut-coloured light creamy white-brown bluish or greyish green deep scarlet red colour pale green colour of or like ivory; ivory-coloured of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron dead-leaf colour; dull brown reddish-yellow colour sea-green; greyish-blue blood-coloured purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror violet-coloured large stork-like bird; a pale apricot colour orange colour yellow like a jasmine brick-red white or pale-coloured