Lavender (color)

Lavender is a pale shade of violet. It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name (this color is displayed at right); the color lavender might be described as a medium violet or a light pinkish purple.

The term lavender may also be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light, medium, or grayish violet colors, as well as some pale or light pinkish, magenta, or purple colors as well as some pale or light blueish-indigo colors.

The first recorded use of the word lavender as a color term in English was in 1705.