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Peach is a color that is named for the pale color of the interior flesh of the peach fruit. This name may also be substituted for "peachy". Like the color Apricot (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 (color), pastel palette of colors for interior design.

Peach

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 language, English was in 1588.

Etymology

The etymology of the color peach (and the fruit): the word comes from the Middle English ''peche'', derived from Middle French, in turn derived from Latin ''persica'', i.e., ''the fruit from Persia''. In actuality, the ultimate origin of the peach fruit was from China.

Variations

Peach puff

Displayed at right is the web color peach puff.

Peach

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, Civil Rights Movement.

In nature

;Fungi
* The peach-colored fly agaric is a peach-colored mushroom.

In culture

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.

Religion
* The color peach represents immortality in Chinese culture because ''Peaches of Immortality, 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 Taoism, Taoist religion. (The color Amaranth (color), amaranth represents immortality in Western culture, Western civilization.)

Sexuality
* In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a peach bandana means that one is a Bear community, "bear" or a "cub" looking for a bear.

See also

* List of colors

References

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