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  2. Tan (color) - Wikipedia

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    Tan is a pale tone of brown. The name is derived from tannum ( oak bark) used in the tanning of leather. [ 1] The first recorded use of tan as a color name in English was in the year 1590. [ 2] Colors which are similar or may be considered synonymous to tan include: tawny, tenné, and fulvous .

  3. Tawny (color) - Wikipedia

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    Tawny (color) The tawny owl ( Strix aluco) gives an example of tawny used as an adjective in a name. Latin scientific names may use the adjective fulvus (or variations), meaning tawny or fulvous. An example is Cinnycerthia fulva, the binomial name of the fulvous wren. Tawny (also called tenné) is a light brown to brownish- orange color.

  4. Barack Obama tan suit controversy - Wikipedia

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    Barack Obama tan suit controversy. 2:49 pm, August 28, 2014; Obama meeting with John F. Tefft, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, in the Oval Office. On August 28, 2014, United States President Barack Obama held a live press conference in which he discussed the prospect of escalating the U.S. military response to the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.

  5. List of colors (alphabetical) - Wikipedia

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    Colors are an important part of the visual arts, fashion, interior design, and many other fields and disciplines. The following list shows a compact version of the colors in the list of colors A–F, G–M, and N–Z articles. The list shows the color swatch and its name.

  6. Fawn (colour) - Wikipedia

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    B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) A fawn Great Dane. Fawn is a light yellowish tan colour. It is usually used in reference to clothing, soft furnishings and bedding, as well as to a dog 's coat colour. It occurs in varying shades, ranging between pale tan to pale fawn to dark deer-red. The first recorded use of fawn as a colour name in English ...

  7. Shades of pink - Wikipedia

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    Shades of pink. Pink colors are usually light or desaturated shades of reds, roses, and magentas which are created on computer and television screens using the RGB color model and in printing with the CMYK color model. As such, it is an arbitrary classification of color. Below is a list of some of the common pink colors.

  8. Shades of brown - Wikipedia

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    Some shades of Brown. Red Brown ( X11) Pale Brown. Medium Brown. Dark Brown. Light Brown. Shades of brown can be produced by combining red, yellow, and black [ 1] pigments, or by a combination of orange and black—illustrated in the color box. The RGB color model, that generates all colors on computer and television screens, makes brown by ...

  9. Tan line - Wikipedia

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    A "driver's tan" (or similar terms such as "trucker's tan" or "taxi driver's arm") is a tanning pattern where one arm from the sleeve downward is tanned significantly more than the other arm due to extensive driving of a motor vehicle with the window down. A close-up photograph of a man's right foot. The foot is tanned, with clear tan lines ...