Pinky limony creamy birnies and their turkiss indienne mauves

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  • The colours of the rainbow as if seen in fading light (dusk).
    • pink - red
    • limony - yellow
    • creamy - orange
    • turkiss (Danish: turquoise) - green and blue)
    • indienne - indigo
    • 'mauves' - violet
  • Lim: a river in current-day Bosnia and Serbia
  • limon: (French) a type of lemon
  • Indian: a river in Florida, USA
  • indienne: (French) printed calico cloth
  • Birne: (German) pear
  • McBirney's: a Dublin draper's business
  • Turk kiss