Colour
Magenta
Magenta noun - A primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta.
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In his debut episode, he has a different colour (blue instead of magenta), usually walks on his hind legs, and can not only talk but can act and fast-talk people with a vocabulary to match.
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Long before the home computer era, this show introduced kids to the colour name "magenta".
- This is borne out by a colour-mixing chart on The Other Wiki, which shows "red" and "blue" which are clearly what we now call magenta and cyan.
Source: Newer Than They Think
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