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Cool way to learn some of these. Does anyone know why "Peru" is #CD853F, a brown? It has nothing to do with the flag (which is red and white). (Aside: the word
by bernardom 4y ago
Cool way to learn some of these. Does anyone know why "Peru" is #CD853F, a brown?
It has nothing to do with the flag (which is red and white).
(Aside: the word "peru" in Portuguese means turkey, like the bird. I somehow doubt this is related.)
- awestroke 4y agoProbably because large parts of Peru is that color - deserts, brown mountains
- Shorel 4y agoI would completely invert saddlebrown and chocolate. I mean, #D2691E is more orange than chocolate, IMO.
- Zitrax 4y agoRelated discussion with no definite answer: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/247129/why-is-peruvian-brown-so-named https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/247129/why-is-pe...