Ben Ramsey on Nostr: nprofile1q…t6eyl From the OED: “The native home of the orange may have been ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqgt3jvqkex9z6r9772mzetm7gdw7tq6888kccvm9uxsus80ev7e9sgt6eyl (nprofile…6eyl) From the OED: “The native home of the orange may have been Southeast Asia, and the name may have originated there. In the Middle Ages the bitter (or Seville) orange was brought by the Arabs to Sicily, from where it spread to the rest of Europe. The sweet (or China) orange was brought from China by the Portuguese in the 16th cent.”

The earliest attestation in the OED of the use of “orange” as a word for the color is from 1557, very shortly after the fruit was introduced to Europe.