Solferino

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(n.) A brilliant deep pink color with a purplish tinge, one of the dyes derived from aniline; - so called from Solferino in Italy, where a battle was fought about the time of its discovery.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

A village in North Italy, 20 m. NW. of Mantua, where the Austrians were defeated by the French and Piedmontese in 1859.

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