natural colour
/ˌnatʃ(ə)rəl ˈkʌlə/ /ˈnatʃ(ə)r(ə)l ˈkʌlə/(US natural color)
noun
1A colour which something has by nature; specifically the colour of unbleached and undyed fabric or of unvarnished and unstained wood.
2In an image: a colour which accurately reproduces the actual colour of the object represented.
3A colour, especially of a fabric, reminiscent of the muted shades typically found in nature.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Arderne's Treatises of Fistula in Ano. From natural + colour.
- interior angle
- interior decoration
- interior decorator
- interior design
- interior designer
- interiority
- interiorize
- interiorly
- interior monologue
- interior-sprung
- interj.
- interject
- interjection
- interjectional
- interjectory
- interknit
- interlace
- interlacement
- Interlaken
- interlanguage
- interlap
- interlard
- interlay
- interlayer
- interleading