What is a color, brown shaded with purple, coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel called?
pigeonwing — (Tempering) A color, brown shaded with purple, coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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