Cardinal (color)
Cardinal is a vivid red, which gets its name from the cassocks worn by Catholic cardinals (although the color worn by cardinals is actually scarlet). The family of birds takes its name from the color.
The first recorded use of cardinal as a color name in English was in 1698.
Read more about Cardinal (color): Cardinal in Other Color Systems, Cardinal in Human Culture
Famous quotes containing the word cardinal:
“Honest towards ourselves and towards anyone else who is our friend; brave towards the enemy; magnanimous towards the defeated; polite—always: this is how the four cardinal virtues want us to act.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)