Thoughts on Orange

Alyssa asked me the other day,
"Which came first, the fruit or the color?"

Hmmmmm...
I was stumped

Here's the best answer I've found so far:

The use of the word "orange" to identify the tree and the fruit
dates back to about 1300,
but the first recorded use of the word as a color
wasn't until 1542.

In those 200+ years between,
the color was actually called Geoluhread in Old English,
which translates roughly into Modern English as Yellow-red.

I thought that was interesting :)