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color named for the pale color of the interior flesh of the peach fruit
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“Here mulberries bleed; the grape’s lithe cluster bends; And blue the rush-bound cucumber depends.”
“And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”
“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy..."”
“My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.”
“Sharp-tasted citrons Median climes produce, (Bitter the rind, but generous is the juice,) A cordial fruit, a present antidote Against the direful stepdame's deadly draught.”
“Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.”
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Peach is a color that is named for the pale color of the interior flesh of the peach fruit. Like the color apricot, the color peach is paler than most actual peach fruits and seems to have been formulated (like the color apricot) primarily to create a pastel palette of colors for interior design.
The color peach approximates the color of the interior flesh of that variety of peaches known as white peaches.
The first recorded use of peach as a color name in English was in 1588.
The word comes from the fruit, which is from the Old French peche, derived from medieval Latin persica, i.e., the fruit from Persia (the ultimate origin of the peach tree was from China).
Displayed at right is the color that is called "peach" in the RYB color system. It is a mixture of white and some orange.
Displayed at right is the web color peach puff.
Displayed at right is the deep tone of peach called peach in Crayola crayons. Prior to 1962, it was known as flesh, but the name was changed to peach, ostensibly in recognition of the Civil Rights Movement.
Fungi
The peach-colored fly agaric is a peach-colored mushroom.
Interior Design
In Art Deco interior design of the 1920s and 1930s, peach-colored mirrors (as well as blue mirrors) were often seen installed in exclusive luxury homes, and in nightclubs and hotels catering to the upper classes. Peach color is also recommended for a bedroom to have a good sleep.
Religion
The color peach represents immortality in Chinese culture because The Peach Tree of Immortality, long thought to be on a mountainside somewhere in the Tian Shan in western China, and which blooms only once every 3,000 years, is a key concept in the mythology of the Taoist religion.
Sexuality
In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a peach bandana means that one is a "bear" or a "cub" looking for a bear.