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12.22.2005

Geoluhread

Just what did they call the color orange, before people found oranges?

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Before the orange fruit was introduced to the English-speaking world, the colour was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which transliterates into Modern English variously as yellow-red, yellowred, or yellored (all pronounced the same).

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