Coquelicot

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For the of Montreal album, see Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse.

Coquelicot is a bright red color, tinted with orange, like that of the poppy flower. Coquelicot means poppy in French. Isabella favorably describes hat ribbons of the color in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. In a letter to her sister Cassandra in 1796 Jane Austen reported the fact that coquelicot was the most fashionable color in Bath. See "A Portrait of Jane Austen" by David Cecil. Constable 1978, Penguin 2000. Also a character in Sakura Wars.