"The color chartreuse is named for the liqueur. Like orange, which began as a fruit, this sharp and bright shade of green only secondarily became a color." https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/12/17/chartreuse-the-color-of-elixirs-flappers-and-alternate-realities/
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We had a whiteboard where I worked that became the employee quiz-game spot. People would post questions and others would list answers, like asking for a list of oxymorons.
We got a surprisingly long list for, "List one-word names for colors." Obviously, bullshit names from the paint store that don't mean anything, like "Inspiration," didn't count, but things that people could definitely agree on the general hue would, like "seafoam" or "eggplant."