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  2. Nankeen - Wikipedia

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    Nankeen (also called Nankeen cloth) is a kind of pale yellowish cloth originally made in Nanjing, China from a yellow variety of cotton, but subsequently manufactured from ordinary cotton that is then dyed. [1]

  3. Flax (color) - Wikipedia

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    Flax or flaxen is a pale yellowish-gray, the color of straw or unspun dressed flax.The first recorded use of flax as a color name in English was in 1915, [2] but "flaxen" had been used to describe hair color in David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens in 1849: Mr. Omer's granddaughter, Minnie, is described as "a pretty little girl with long, flaxen, curling hair."

  4. Straw (colour) - Wikipedia

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    Straw / ˈ s t r ɔː / is a colour, a tone of pale yellow, the colour of straw. The Latin word stramineus , with the same meaning, is often used in describing nature. The first recorded use of straw as a colour name in English was in 1589.

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  6. Shades of yellow - Wikipedia

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    The definition is mirrored in British Standard BS 381C and Australian Standard AS2700 (where it is known as golden yellow). In 1937, it was determined that safety yellow was the best color to be noticed by the human brain; as a result, the paint color of all United States school buses was changed from orange to safety yellow (see also school ...

  7. Isabelline (colour) - Wikipedia

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    Isabelline (/ ɪ z ə ˈ b ɛ l ɪ n /; also known as isabella) is a pale grey-yellow, pale fawn, pale cream-brown or parchment colour. It is primarily found in animal coat colouring, particularly plumage colour in birds and, in Europe, in horses. It also has historically been applied to fashion.

  8. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [28] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...

  9. Beige - Wikipedia

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    Beige is the French word for the color of natural wool (freshly shorn example at the Royal Winter Fair).. Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, [1] a grayish tan, [2] a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. [3]