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Finnish SM-Liiga ice-hockey team Tappara is famous for unusual orange hockey pants.
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Orange is the traditional and most common colour of a Basketball.
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Orange is the colour of the 5-ball and 13-ball in Billiards.
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(The 13-ball is white with an orange stripe.)
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Orange is the colour of the ball in Snooker Plus with an 8-point value.
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Orange is the colour of Chelsea Goalkeeper Petr Cechs new Jersey.
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He chose he colour because it makes the wearer appear larger, therefore causing distraction in opposing strikers.
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Commercially
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Linguistically
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People whose natural hair colour is metaphorically described in English as being red, i.e. redheads, actually have hair that averages a burnt orange colour.
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Orange is often quoted (along with Purple and Silver (color)) as a word that doesn't rhyme with any other word in the English language.
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This is debatable - see Orange (word)#Rhyme.
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However, the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary does show both these words as having half-rhymes (such as lozenge with orange and salver with silver).
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In a children's book of verse, in a poem titled "Color," there are these lines:
What is red? a poppy's red, in its barley bed.
What is orange? Why, an orange--just an orange!
What is red? a poppy's red, in its barley bed.
What is orange? Why, an orange--just an orange!
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Academia
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In the United States and Canada, orange regalia is associated with the field of engineering.
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Geography and history
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Orange is the national colour of The Netherlands, because its royal family of Orange-Nassau used to own the principality of Orange (the title is still used for the Dutch heir apparent).
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There is no etymological connection between orange (the fruit and colour) and Orange (the name of the principality), and the similarity is fortuitous.
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(See the page on Orange (word) for more information.)