orange skinn.
/ˈɒrᵻn(d)ʒ ˌskɪn/, U.S. /ˈɔr(ə)ndʒ ˌskɪn/, /ˈɑr(ə)ndʒ ˌskɪn/ ((in sense 2))Brit. /ˌɒrᵻn(d)ʒ ˈskɪn/, U.S. /ˌɔr(ə)ndʒ ˈskɪn/, /ˌɑr(ə)ndʒ ˈskɪn/ 1. The rind of an orange; orange peel.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > citrus fruit > [noun] > orange > parts of
orange pill1623
orange peel1659
orange chip1675
orange skin1683
orange quarter1718
1683–4 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Stirling (1889) II. 325 Ane pound of confected limmens and orrange skines.
1767 S. Neville Diary 9 June (1950) i. 10 They pelted Davies and Hull..with orange skins, crying ‘Off! Off!’.
1832 J. F. Cooper Heidenmauer II. xv. 207 Men are wont to share the fate of the orange-skin. which is thrown away after being sucked.
1890 Amer. Naturalist 24 779 Hab. On putrid orange-skin among bacteria.
1961 Science 20 Jan. 169/1 The cats would also seize and swallow non-food objects such as orange skin, wood shavings, and cigarettes.
1996 A. Theroux Secondary Colors 64 In Thailand, where oranges are a green fruit, an orange skin of flaring cadmium would surprise them.
2. † a. Medicine. Neonatal jaundice. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > disordered pigmentation
melasma1563
orange skin1822
melanopathia1847
xanthosis1853
xanthelasma1867
xanthochroia1867
xanthoderma1867
xanthopathia1867
xanthoma1869
argyria1874
chloasma1877
leucoderma1884
xeroderma pigmentosum1884
hyperchromatosis1886
melanodermia1886
leucodermia1888
hyperchromasia1889
hyperpigmentation1890
hypochromia1890
xanthochromia1894
xanthodermia1900
melanization1927
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > jaundice
jaundice1303
yellow evila1387
aurigo1398
gulesought14..
yellow soughtc1400
green jaundice1547
yellow sickness1568
icterism1660
yellow plague1668
icterus1706
orange skin1822
cholaemia1866
leptospiral jaundice1924
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 687 Epichrosis Aurigo. Orange-Skin.
1876 J. Thomas Comprehensive Med. Dict. at Aurigo Orange-skin. A term applied to an orange hue diffused over the entire surface of the skin in new-born infants.
b. Skin (of an animal, fruit, etc.) that is orange.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun]
hidea1300
orange skin1862
1862 New Amer. Cycl. (new ed.) XIII. 17/2 Eyes surrounded by a naked orange skin.
1937 A. H. Verrill & O. W. Barrett Foods Amer. Gave World xix. 145 The papaya is also very similar to a melon, with a more or less fluted, yellow or orange skin.
1993–4 Campus Connection 23/1 But be careful with ‘fake & bakes’! Victoria at Boston University says, ‘Sometimes people get a little overzealous—the result—orange skin!’
Compounds
orange-skin surface n. Ceramics a slightly rough or finely pitted glaze on certain ceramics. [After Chinese jú pí orange peel, also with reference to a ceramic surface resembling orange peel ( < jú tangerine + pí skin).]
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1890 Cent. Dict. at Orange Orange-skin surface, a name given to the glaze of certain varieties of Oriental porcelain, from the slight roughnesses of the surface, without reference to color.
1945 W. B. Honey Ceramic Art of China 80 The name Kiangnan..is traditionally given to a distinct class of cream-coloured stonewares with buff or cream glaze and rather matt orange-skin surface.
2002 Treasure Hunting Nov. 32/3 Salt glazing, which produced a mottled ‘orange skin’ surface, usually brown or grey, was developed in late medieval Germany.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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