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Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the color of the heliotrope flower.

The first recorded use of heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882.

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Variations of heliotrope

Heliotrope gray

The color heliotrope gray is displayed at right. The first recorded use of heliotrope gray as a color name in English was in 1912.

The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Heliotrope Gray (color sample #227)

Old heliotrope

At right is displayed the color old heliotrope.

Another name for this color is old helio.

The first recorded use of old helio as a color name in English was in 1926.

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Heliotrope in culture

• The color has been widely referenced as a characterization, the color of key plot objects, or as flavor text in many works:
  • Heliotrope was referenced as a dress color in several 19th and 20th century author's works, including Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, (Countess Bezukhova's gown); Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" (Mrs Cheveley's gown); P. G. Wodehouse's Thank You Jeeves (Bertie Wooster's pajamas); Sarah Mlynowski Parties & Potions, (gowns); D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, (Mrs Morel's blouse); and in the 1984 British TV series The Jewel in the Crown Barbara Batchelor mentions seeing "some heliotrope stuff in the Bazaar".
  • In James Joyce's The Dead (a heliotrope envelope); in Danielewski's House of Leaves (Pelafina (luggage)); Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (pencils); in the Harry Potter novels (Mafalda Hopkirk's polyjuice potion); and in the British sci-fi series Doctor Who (robes worn by the Patrexes).
  • Heliotrope was a popular color reference of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, script writers of Hancock's Half Hour.
  • In James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "heliotrope" is the answer to the Maggies' riddle. Throughout the chapter, the word "heliotrope" is disguised a number of times, hidden either in anagrams, riddles, puns, or obscure allusions.
  • In the film La Furia del Hombre Lobo (Fury of the Wolfman), the opening narration states, "When the heliotrope starts growing among rough rocks, and, the full moon shines at night..."
  • In Eric Thompson's Dougal and the blue cat, Buxton the cat prepares to do away with all other colors ... "like heliotrope".

• The periorbital purplish discoloration occurring in dermatomyositis is called the "Heliotrope rash" after the color.

• Heliotrope was among the handful of "half-mourning" colors worn by Victorians during the last stage of mourning.

• One of the most famous ragtime piano melodies is "Heliotrope Bouquet", composed in 1907 by Louis Chauvin and Scott Joplin.

• Exmouth RFC play in shirts with a heliotrope and white horizontal strip.

• "Heliotrope" is the title of the fourth track on At the Drive-In's 1999 EP Vaya.

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