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Saffron (color)

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Saffron is a shade of yellow or orange, the colour of the tip of the saffron crocus thread, from which the spice saffron is derived.

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  • The media’s politics of labelling can have a bad effect. The papers keep talking about the saffron brigade. Historically, saffron is the colour of renunciation. Now you have taken away the colour from the believing Hindu and given it a pejorative ring.
    • Anthropologist Shail Mayaram, quoted in "A Faith Besieged", Outlook India (8 July 2002), Online
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