gredelin

== Swedish == === Etymology === Borrowed from French gridelin. === Adjective === gredelin (not comparable) (color, now rare) (light) lavender ==== Usage notes ==== Kind of a faded, creamy purple. Still fairly well known, mostly from a character "tant Gredelin" ("Aunt Lavender" in the English translation) appearing in a series of storybooks by Elsa Beskow. ==== Declension ==== ==== See also ==== brandgul lila purpur violett === References === “gredelin”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “gredelin”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “gredelin”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)