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Auburn is a Red dish Brown Color . It is similar to Burgundy and Maroon , although these two colors have a more reddish tint, whilst auburn has a slightly more brownish one. Historically, the word abram was used to mean auburn, for example in early (pre-1685) folios of '' Coriolanus '', Thomas Kyd 's ''Soliman and Perseda'' (1588) and Thomas Middleton 's '' Blurt, Master Constable '' (1601). ''The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'' In his book 'Germania' Tacitus, the Romanised Gaulish historian, described the hair color of the Germanic peoples as being 'Rutilo' meaning Auburn in Latin. The first recorded use of ''auburn'' as a color name in English was in 1430 . Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 190; Color Sample of Auburn Page 37 Plate 7 Color Sample C11 AUBURN
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