The illustrations in Passages in the Life of Blue Beard (1872) feature hand-tinted blue beards.

"The beams and pulses of the colored lights allowed us to see what was going on but not reconstruct it in our minds.  This is the astute discovery such night spots have made." —César Aira (as translated by Katherine Silver), The Literary Conference

The colors combine into a six-pointed ghostly star.  From The Principles of Light and Color by Edwin Dwight Babbitt, 1878.

You knew that a rainbow can cast a shadow, but did you know that a shadow can also cast a rainbow?  We find the proof in Ceylon in the “Jubilee Year” by John Ferguson, 1887.

"I see that the whole world looks gray," from St. Nicholas magazine, 1909.

Did you know that the collective noun for glitter is apparently "library"? 

The aurora flashed crimson in The Icelander's Sword by Sabine Baring-Gould, 1894.

A synaesthete told us we're like a flexible acrylic notebook cover of translucent cyan blue.  "Translucent cyan" is an anagram of "uncanny clatters," so it all begins to make sense.