"Which came first? The color orange or the discovery fruit orange?" It seems the fruit came first, as it is mentioned in documents three centuries before the c

"Which came first? The color orange or the discovery fruit orange?" It seems the fruit came first, as it is mentioned in documents three centuries before the color. The old English name for the color is "geoluhread" (yellow-red). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word)