A pretty pair, this, and an interesting colour: not sure whether to call them blue or purple. In thinking about blue and purple I wandered down a very interesting pathway through the Oxford English Dictionary just now and have learned that "purple" comes from a type of mollusc that yields a crimson dye and that "crimson" and "purple" used to refer to the same colour. It did not go on to say what purple was called in those synonymous years, which is disappointing.
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