Couleur in a sentence

After his demands were refused, he attempted to incite the gens de couleur to revolt.

Eva Heller (2000), Psychologie de la couleur- effets et symboliques, p. 33. Yellow is the color of ambivalence and contradiction; the color associated with optimism and amusement; but also with betrayal, duplicity, and jealousy.

Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur - effets et symboliques, p. 107. Vincent van Gogh used black lines to outline many of the objects in his paintings, such as the bed in the famous painting of his bedroom. making them stand apart.

Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur: effets et symboliques, p. 167. As a color that rarely exists in nature, and a color which by its nature attracts attention, it is seen as a color of individualism and extravagance.

Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur; effets et symboliques. p. 4 Brown uniforms Brown has been a popular color for military uniforms since the late 18th century, largely because of its wide availability and low visibility.

Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur: effets et symboliques, pg. 17 Blue glass was manufactured in Mesopotamia and Egypt as early as 2500 BC, using the same copper ingredients as Egyptian blue pigment.

Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur - effets et symboliques (pg. 28) The efforts to block indigo were in vain; the quality of indigo blue was too high and the price too low for pastel made from woad to compete.

Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur, effets et symboliques (pg. 30) Thanks in part to the availability of indigo dye, the 18th century saw the widespread use of blue military uniforms.

Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur - effets et symboliques, (pg. 36) *Blue is commonly used in the Western Hemisphere to symbolise boys, in contrast to pink used for girls.

Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur- effets et symboliques, (pg. 37–38) *Blue is also associated with labour and the working class.

Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur - effets et symboliques, pg. 46. Red was used to color statues and the skin of gladiators.

Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur, page 32. File:Great Wave off Kanagawa2.

In Pétion's south, the gens de couleur minority led the government and feared losing popular support, and thus, sought to assuage class tensions with land redistribution.

Isabellle Roelofs and Fabien Petillion, La Couleur explquée aux artistes, p. 30. * Raw sienna and burnt sienna are also clay pigments rich in iron oxide, which were mined during the Renaissance around the city of Siena in Tuscany.

Michel Pastoureau, Noir - Histoire d'une couleur, p. 34. The Ancient Romans had two words for black: ater was a flat, dull black, while niger was a brilliant, saturated black.

Michel Pastoureau, Noir- Histoire d'une couleur, p. 80. Black symbolized both power and secrecy in the medieval world.

Michel Pastourou, Bleu: Histoire d'une couleur, pg. 24 The Greeks imported indigo dye from India, calling it indikon.

Multics required a number of additional features in the CPU to be truly effective, and John Couleur was joined by Edward Glaser at MIT to make the required modifications.

New Orleans' large community of well-educated, often French-speaking free persons of color (gens de couleur libres), who had been free prior to the Civil War, sought to fight back against Jim Crow.

The largest concentration of gens de couleur was in the southern peninsula, the last region of the colony to be settled, owing to its distance from Atlantic shipping lanes and its formidable terrain, with the highest mountain range in the Caribbean.