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Bole is a shade of brown. There is an English word bole meaning the trunk of a tree but according to the American Heritage Dictionary this word is simply a homograph/homophone that does not share the etymological origin of the color word bole which derives from Latin bōlus (lump of earth) and refers to a kind of soft fine clay whose reddish-brown varieties are used as pigments hence its use as a word for a reddish-brown color.

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