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Did the medieval English word 'yellowred' mean exactly the same thing as the modern word 'orange'? And did medieval people also call things, for instance 'bluegreen'?
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I am curious about the factoid that 'yellowred' was used instead of the modern 'orange'. Assuming that this is true, often there can be some difference, cross-culturally, between the way that different colour words map onto different parts of the spectrum - does 'yellowred' map onto the modern 'orange' fairly exactly, or are there more subtle differences between the meanings of the words? And were such combinations of colour words otherwise common?
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