cool as colour construction

Part of language	English
Meaning of the construction	(for a colour) containing green, blue, indigo, violet, purple
comment	first attested: 1758, cf. OED

Construction elements

Examples

Example 1

Text	The cool palette consists of French ultramarine, Prussian green, lamp black and titanium white.
comment	OED, 1991

Example 2

Text	a cool shade of grey

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is a metaphorical extension of

cool (temperature) construction

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Metadata

Date Created	2025-11-28
Annotator	Julia Boos
Annotator	Elizaveta Petrenko
Annotator	Lina Weigelt
Annotator	Elodie Winckel
References	Davies (ed.) (2024). British National Corpus.
References	Davies (ed.) The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).
References	DWDS - Digitale Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (2025). cool.
References	Oxford English Dictionary (2025). cool (adjective, Adverb, Interjection).

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