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Kuriiro

涅色 · くりいろ

Written with a different character but read the same as chestnut color, this kuri-iro means a brown-tinged black — the color of mud at the bottom of a river. Deep, dense, and nearly lightless.

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white 11.56 AAA black 1.82 ×
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The namesake

黒い泥 川底 — what the name literally points to.

dark black river mud
dark black river mud
dark black river mud