The Colour With No Name 2 0f 7

Dr Franklyn: ‘Fair enough … the other topic I’ve been mulling over was ... the colour with no name.
Me: I had to put my knife and fork down.
‘Where did you come up with that from?’
Dr Franklyn … Laughing ‘I was watching a Clint Eastwood film the other night on TV, the man with no name stuff. It occurred to me that there are plenty of sounds without names – just onomatopoeic resemblances – and plenty of colours without names - what is a POW! ? Not forgetting the exclamation mark of course - it usually means someone is hitting someone else or something … what is a SKREEK! ? It could be nails on a blackboard or a bird call ( people were looking at us now) so what then, is the colour of this tea?’
Me: ‘It’s a milky tea colour of course Doc … and I guess there has been a milky tea colour since the 17th century at least … before that, errr I wouldn’t like to think what they called it - might put me off breakfast! … but I see your point, that is a literal description of what it is … other than that it’s one of the millions of pale browns of some kind – Harmonics I’d call them – colours that people don’t notice until they have to call them something – or they are decorating a room – then they become flavourised’ ( the Doc laughed)
Dr Franklyn: ‘Is that a technical term?’... still laughing.
Me: ‘Does the trick doesn’t it … yes .. flavourised colour descriptions, like White with a hint of Apple – Barley Haze – Cinnamon – Petunia, they’re all apt descriptive names – even if we do tend to laugh at them.’