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:
“Time and I against any two.”
—Spanish proverb.
Quoted by Cardinal Mazarin during the minority of Louis XIV.