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Fawn is a light
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Fawn is a light yellowish
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tan colour
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. It is usually used in reference to clothing, soft furnishings and bedding, as well as to a dog's coat colour. It occurs in varying shades, ranging between pale tan to pale fawn to dark deer-red.
The first recorded use of ''fawn'' as a colour name in English
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was in 1789.Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 195; Color Sample of Fawn: Page 51 Plate 14 Color Sample A7
Fawn in dog breeds
The fawncoat
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colour is found in many breeds
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, such as Boxers, Great Danes, and Pugs. Genetically, in most cases the colour is due to the recessive ay gene at the Agouti locus
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. Some breeds, such as Chows and Doberman Pinschers use the term "fawn" to describe a red dog (at the Eumelanin locus) that carries a copy of the dilution gene; in Dobermans this colour is more commonly called "Isabella".
See also
*List of colours
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