Olive skin describes a skin color spectrum that originates and frequents among populations from the Mediterranean, Southern Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, parts of East Asia, and parts of South Asia.
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“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 23:10,11.
“The hand I burned and whose skin is shriveled like that of a mummy’s is less sensitive than the other to cold or heat. My soul is the same; it passed through fire.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)