Many illustrators and artists, for example, preferred using the traditional Christmas colors of red and green, or even brown furs, when drawing jolly, old St.

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With features typical of the Konkani people from southwest India (light brown complexion and often green, grey or blue eyes after centuries of interaction with European traders), Raut "could be from anywhere, " says Bidapa.

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Mongolian spots (technically named congenital dermal melanocytosis) are flat bluish-green, gray or light brown areas where cells called melanocytes have been trapped in a layer of the skin called the dermis.

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Other varieties come in many shades besides the common cream or green color, including red, purple, brown, black and the speckled ones.

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But still, he might maybe have been have just a little bit more precise about what qualifies a green job as being green, as compared with one that is brown, or worse, possibly black.

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