SC - Oranges and "orange" - OT/(?)OOP

Philip & Susan Troy troy at asan.com
Sun Sep 5 22:28:59 PDT 1999


James Gilly / Alasdair mac Iain wrote:
> 
> As I understand it, the word "orange" originally meant the fruit, and was
> later applied to the colour.  So - does anyone know what the colour was
> called (in English) before the introduction of oranges?

Yellow? Golden?

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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