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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Famous quotes containing the words olive and/or skin:
“Even when seen from near, the olive shows
A hue of far away. Perhaps for this
The dove brought olive back, a tree which grows
Unearthly pale, which ever dims and dries,
And whose great thirst, exceeding all excess,
Teaches the South it is not paradise.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 34:29.