 In recent color charts, the color "zinzolin" is a mauve or a purple.The shift in meaning, from purplish-red to reddish-purple then simply purple, took place in the second half of the 19th century, all the more easily because the word "zinzolin" has a pleasant sound, but remained rare, literary, pretentious and even bizarre.No doubt this should be see in the context of the invention of artificial coloring and the fashion for purples in the 1860s.