The Naming of Forgotten Colours

Turleen is the colour of a cooking pot illuminated by the light of another room.

Versotage is the colour you remember rock moss to be.

Hubrian is the colour of something that could equally be a shadow or a patch of moisture.

Bisper is the colour of the sky after shutting your eyes for a long time and then opening them.

Nuve is the colour of the page ends of an old paperback.

Tidderish is the colour of grass in morning sunlight when butterflies are near.

Gish is the rich, living green at the heart of an old onion.

Potlion is the not-quite-black colour of clock hands on a stopped clock.

Spube is the colour of the food stain that won't come out of an old shirt.

Fegette is the colour of the darkness between bright illuminations or many fireflies.

Batcherfan is the colour of concrete steps near the sea at four o'clock in the afternoon.

Glubon is the colour of a football field after torrential rain.

Spaffle is the colour of the feathers of the bird on the window ledge, neither grey nor brown.