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Page 320. Isabella-coloured. 



A species of whitish-yellow, or buff-colour somewhat soiled. 

 Altieri. The name of this tint is said to have originated in the 

 following circumstance. The Archduke Albert, who had mar- 

 ried the infanta Isabella, daughter of Philip II. King of Spain, 

 with whom he had the Low-Countries in dowry, in the year 

 1 602, having determined to lay siege to Ostend, then in the pos- 

 session of the Protestants, the Princess, who attended him in 

 his expedition, made a vow, that until it was captured she 

 would never change her garments. It was however, three 

 years, before the city was reduced ; and in that time the 

 Infanta's linen had acquired the hue above-mentioned. Haw- 

 kins. 



