A very light blue or grayish-blue color, like that of certain traditional Italian pottery or pigments.
Italian diminutive of berretto (cap), possibly referring to the color of caps or to a traditional blue pigment. The -ino ending makes it a diminutive. Used particularly in Italian art and ceramics terminology.
Berrettino blue was a treasured pigment in Renaissance Italy, and it appears in famous Italian majolica pottery—the name might come from an association with caps of that color, making it one of the few colors named after clothing!
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