Naut's Thoughts for Tuesday, September 8, 2015

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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Forgotten English…23

I hope you’ll be more careful with your vows… isabelline A pale brownish-yellow colour; from Isabelle, a queen or princess of this name. Charles Annandale’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1897 This colour is a whitish yellow, a little soiled…The Archduke Albertus, who had married the infant... Sign in to see full entry.

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