eleanorstrib/gothic

Advise on formats of color description in gothic lit

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ISSUE
In order to write rules for the text processing, need to know about any specific ways colors might be described in gothic lit.

REQUIREMENTS
Advise if gothic writers use:

  • suffixes other than superlatives, -ly and -ish
  • hyphenated combos, like blue-green
  • other modifications of known words
  • metaphors/allegories

The new colour vocab includes all these variants (-ly, -ish, hyphenated combos) that have been recorded in the OED. We don't need to write a special rule for this.
The list should also include all recorded instances of nouns used as adjectives/metaphorically, e.g., "malachite" as an adjective meaning green, so we don't need to write a rule for this either.