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Fawn is a light yellowish tan colour. 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 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
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Fawn is a light yellowish tan colour. 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 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
A coat typically is an outer garment for the upper body as worn by either gender for warmth or fashion. Coats typically have long sleeves and are open down the front and closing by means of buttons, zippers, hook-and-loop fasteners, toggles, a ...
colour is found in many breeds, 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
The Dobermann (; ), or Doberman Pinscher in the United States and Canada, is a medium-large dog breed, breed of domestic dog that was originally developed around 1890 by Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, Louis Dobermann, a tax collector fro ...
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 coloursNotes
References
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