Cinereous

Cinereous is a colour, meaning ashy grey in appearance, either consisting of or resembling ashes, or a grey colour tinged with coppery brown. It is derived from the Latin cinereus, from cinis (ashes).

Cinereous
 
    Colour coordinates
Hex triplet#98817B
sRGBB (r, g, b)(152, 129, 123)
HSV (h, s, v)(12°, 19%, 60%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(56, 16, 27°)
SourceMaerz and Paul
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight grayish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The first recorded use of cinereous as a colour name in English was in 1661.

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