isabella

1. A pale grey-yellow, fawn, cream-brown or parchment colour.
   • 1864, Sir William Crookes, in Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (volume 10, page 301)

     If it be exposed to heat as soon as it is moderately warm, its dark olive colour changes almost suddenly to an Isabella colour, it becomes cloudy, and an abundant precipitate falls […]

• isabel
• isabelline
• parchment

• IPA: /ɪzəˈbɛlə/

1. A female given name.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

     : Act I, Scene V:

     Can you so stead me,

     As bring me to the sight of Isabella,

     A novice of this place, and the fair sister

     To her unhappy brother Claudio?

   • 1857 Mary Anne Everett Green, Lives of the Princesses of England, Vol. 3, page 2 ("Elizabeth, eighth daughter of Edward I"):

     A contemporary, and usually very accurate chronicler, Bartholomew of Norwich, tells us that the queen called her infant by the barbarous name of Walkiniana; others again call her Isabella; but, in the wardrobe accounts, and all other state records, she is invariably designated Elizabeth.