Colors that have beautiful names

This color is a pallid yellowish color.

Orpiment is "a handsome yellow more closely resembling gold than any other color."

Bright orange-red that is close to vermilion and cinnabar.

Mountbatten Pink is a medium gray with a dash of Vermilion red.

Rosso corsa is racing red.

Ideally, according to Pliny, the color of clotted blood. A deep purple.

A resonant blue. Used by the Celts to paint themselves.

A beautiful and brilliant green

"russet cloth could be any color ranging from dun through to brown or gray."

A gray with "atmospheric perspective....Think of hills and mountains fading off into the distance." Deep blue-black gray.