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Rose is thecolor halfway betweenred andmagenta, whosehue corresponds to an angle of 330 degrees on theHSV/HSL color wheel.
Rose, or vividpink is one of thetertiary colors on the HSV (RGB) color wheel. Thecomplementary color of rose isspring green. Sometimes rose is quoted instead as theweb-safe color FF00CC, which is closer to magenta than to red, corresponding to a hue angle near 320 degrees, or the web-safe color FF0077, which is closer to red than magenta, corresponding to a hue angle of about 340 degrees.
The first recorded use ofrose as a color name in English was in 1382.[2]
The etymology of the color name rose is the same as that of the name of therose flower. The name originates fromLatinrosa, borrowed throughOscan fromcolonial Greek in southern Italy:rhodon (Aeolic form:wrodon), fromAramaicwurrdā, fromAssyrianwurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf.Avestanwarda,Sogdianward,Parthianwâr).
British historianJohn William Burgon famously described the Jordanian city ofPetra as being colored rose, writing:
Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,
A rose-red city – half as old as time!
Marrakesh, Morocco is called theRose City because many of its buildings are colored various tones of rose.[3]
Portland, Oregon is nicknamed "The Rose City" for the number of roses and rose gardens that thrive there.
A rose-coloredLitfaß column on the Rosenstrasse inBerlin today commemorates theRosenstrasse protest (the building in which the detainees were held no longer exists).
Music
"La Vie en rose" (French for "Life through rose-coloured glasses", literally "Life in pink") was thesignature song of French singerÉdith Piaf. Piaf first popularized the song in 1946. It has been covered by many artists since.
According toNew Age authorC. W. Leadbeater, who claimed to beclairvoyant, of the seven types ofetheric atoms that he claimed to be able to observe with histhird eye circulating through the humanetheric body (colored violet, blue, green, yellow, orange,dark red, and rose), the flow of the rose colored etheric atoms (also called by Leadbeater the rosevitality globule) from thesun into the rainbow colored spleenchakra is the most important since all the other etheric atoms are derived from it and the rose colored atom vivifies the nervous system. Leadbeater also asserted that humans feel good aroundpine trees because they radiate more rose colored etheric atoms than any other plant.[4]
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