tangerine

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Frais has a unique blend of eight hydrating essential oils known as Les Huit which include ginger, tangerine, and lemon myrtle that leave hands unbelievably smooth and create a sensual citrus aroma-a far cry from the usual putrid, itchy drydown.

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  1. noun A widely cultivated variety of mandarin orange having deep red-orange fruit with easily separated segments.
  2. noun A strong reddish orange to strong or vivid orange.
  3. Word History
    The name tangerine comes from Tangier, Morocco, the port from which the first tangerines were shipped to Europe in 1841. The adjective tangerine, from Tangier or Tanger, was already an English word (first recorded in 1710), meaning "of or pertaining to Tangier.” This adjective had been formed with the suffix -ine, as in Florentine. The fruit was first called a tangerine orange, later reduced simply to tangerine. Confusion exists between the name tangerine and the name mandarin, and with good reason. The tangerine is a type of mandarin orange, so the oranges shipped from Tangier could also accurately have been called mandarins. However, although the two names can be used interchangeably in a general sense, there is now a particular type of orange called tangerine, which is different from another type now called mandarin. The mandarin orange, which is native to China, is thought probably to have received its name because of its resemblance in color to the robes of a mandarin.

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  • ♫ Send a tangerine-colored ♫ nuclear submarine ♫ with a sticker that says STP. —  They Might Be Giants play at 8:30 am
  • Coloured explosions, tangerine, lime, quicksilver, each shade more acid than the last, burned his consciousness with an anguish ever deeper. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • I just re-installed my system from scratch, and instead of the boring brown (tangerine is the official term) Human desktop, this greeted me: —  Comments for MenZa's Weblog
  • Frais has a unique blend of eight hydrating essential oils known as Les Huit which include ginger, tangerine, and lemon myrtle that leave hands unbelievably smooth and create a sensual citrus aroma-a far cry from the usual putrid, itchy drydown. —  StyleList Fashion Blog
  • Dancing Filipino inmates in tangerine orange jumpsuits entertained millions of people with their viral remix to Michael Jackson's Thriller. —  TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends
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  1. Short for tangerine orange, after Tanger (Tangier), Morocco.
 

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