camel (color)
{{Short description|Pale brown color}}
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Camel is a color that resembles the color of the hair of a camel.
The first recorded use of camel as a color name in English was in 1916.Maerz & Paul, p. 191; Color Sample of Camel: p. 49 Plate 15 Color Sample A6
The normalized color coordinates for camel are identical to fallow, wood brown and desert, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1000,Maerz & Paul, p. 195; Color Sample of Fallow: p. 47 Plate 12 Color Sample B5 1886,Ridgway (1886), pp. 36, 54, 117; Color Sample of Wood Brown: Plate III fig. 19{{efn|name=fn1|After recording "wood brown" in his 1886 book, Robert Ridgway further refined the details of its color coordinates in his 1912 publication.Ridgway (1912), p. 40; Color Sample of Wood Brown: Plate XL}} and 1920,Maerz & Paul, p. 203; Color Sample of Desert: p. 47 Plate 12 Color Sample I7 respectively.
Fashion
Camel is the color of a specific type of overcoat known as a polo coat or camel-hair coat. In a 1951 Collier's magazine fashion article, it is said camel colored polo coats are proper to wear in the summer, in the country and in the U.S. South, but navy blue overcoats are proper to wear in the city and in autumn, winter and spring.
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References
=Bibliography=
- {{cite book |title=A Dictionary of Color |last1=Maerz |first1=Aloys John |last2=Paul |first2=Morris Rea |year=1930 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Book Company |location=New York |lccn=30016563 |oclc=1150631}}
- {{cite book |title=Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists, Compendium of Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists |first=Robert |last=Ridgway |author-link=Robert Ridgway |year=1886 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=Boston |oclc=768502 |url=https://archive.org/details/nomenclatureofc00ridg/mode/2up}}
- {{cite book |title=Color standards and color nomenclature |first=Robert |last=Ridgway |author-link=Robert Ridgway |year=1912 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Robert Ridgway |lccn=13007093 |oclc=630954 |url=https://archive.org/details/colorstandardsc00ridg/mode/2up}}