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For the of Montreal album, see Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse.

For the Sakura Wars character, see List of Sakura Wars characters.
Coquelicot
About these coordinates About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #FF3800
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 56, 0)
HSV (h, s, v) (13°, 100%, 100[1]%)
Source [Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Coquelicot (koh-KUH-lee-koh) is a bright red color, tinted with orange. It is the color of flowers of Papaver rhoeas, the corn poppy. In French, coquelicot is a vernacular name of this poppy. Claude Monet painted "Les Coquelicots" or "Poppies Blooming" in 1873.

Les Coquelicots by Claude Monet, 1873.

The first recorded use of coquelicot as a color name in English was in the year 1795. [2]

The California poppy is colored a shade of golden called golden poppy.



Coquelicot in human culture

Film

Literature

  • The character Isabella in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey favorably describes hat ribbons of the color. In a letter to her sister Cassandra in 1796 Jane Austen reported the fact that coquelicot was the most fashionable color in Bath[3].

Music

  • Coquelicot is the name of a band from Lubbock, Texas. They have released two EP's: "Tree Friend" and "Blue Moon".

See also

References

  1. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #FF3800 (Coquelicot):
  2. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Coquelicot: Page 27 Plate 2 Color Sample C10
  3. ^ [[|Cecil 1978]]: 4
  • Cecil, David (1978). A Portrait of Jane Austen. Constable. 
Shades of red
Alizarin Amaranth American Rose Burnt sienna Burgundy Candy apple red Cardinal Carmine Carnelian Cerise
                   
Chestnut Coquelicot Coral red Crimson Dark pink Falu red Fire brick Fire engine red Flame Fuchsia
                   
Lava Lust Magenta Maroon Mauve Mauve taupe Orange-red Persian red Persimmon Pink
                   
Puce Raspberry Red Red-violet Redwood Rose Rose madder Rosewood Rosso corsa Ruby
                   
Rufous Rust Sangria Scarlet Sinopia Terra cotta Tuscan red Upsdell red Venetian red Vermilion
                   
The samples shown above are representative only.







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