Pink—which may go back over a billion years—was once the color of fierce ancient hunters, powerful French women, and yes, boys. Pink has long beguiled humans—used to dye clothing and tint cheeks even ...

Despite Meryl Streep’s magnificent speech in “The Devil Wore Prada” on the sudden profusion of “cerulean blue” in fashion, nobody ever gets riled up over the color blue. But pink? Oh, that’s a color ...

Look up the word pink in the dictionary, and you’ll probably find a lot more definitions than you might have expected. But of all the word’s meanings, the oldest on record is one that appears in only ...

Claire Bowern receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Australian Research Council. She is Vice-President of the Endangered Language Fund. It is striking that English color words ...