Marigold is a yellow-orange color. It is named after the flower of the same name. It is currently unknown when ''marigold'' was first used as a colour name, although the New Zealand author

Katherine Mansfield Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her works are celebra ...

used it to describe a hair colour in her short story Something Childish But Very Natural (1914).

Variations of marigold

Gold

Gold, also called ''golden'', is one of a variety of yellow-orange

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blends used to give the impression of the color of the element

gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile me ...

. The

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''gold'' is sometimes referred to as ''golden'' to distinguish it from the color ''metallic gold''. The use of ''gold'' as a color term in traditional usage is more often applied to the color "metallic gold". The first recorded use of ''golden'' as a color name in English was in 1300.Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 195

Yellow-orange

Yellow-orange has been a Crayola crayon color since 1930.

Orange-yellow

Orange-yellow was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 1990.

Goldenrod

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goldenrod. The color ''goldenrod'' is a representation of the color of some of the deeper gold colored

goldenrod Goldenrod is a common name for many species of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae, commonly in reference to the genus '' Solidago''. Several genera, such as '' Euthamia'', were formerly included in a broader concept of the gen ...

flowers.

The first recorded use of ''goldenrod'' as a color name in English was in 1915.Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196; Color Sample of Goldenrod: Page 43 Plate 10 Color Sample L5

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