Orange (color)

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Orange is a color. It is the combination of red and yellow.

Orange is the color of an orange fruit, which is where the name of the color comes from. Before the orange fruit was introduced to England in the 1500s, this color was called yellow-red. The first recorded use of orange as a color name in English was in 1512,^[1] in the court of King Henry VIII.

↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 200

[1] Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 200

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Orange (color)

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