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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“Peace puts forth her olive everywhere.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Your old skin puckering, your lungs’ breath
Grown baby short as you looked up last
At my face swinging over the human bed,
And somewhere you cried, let me go let me go.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)