Auburn hair

Auburn
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Emma Stone

Auburn hair is a variety of red hair, most commonly described as reddish-brown in color. Auburn hair ranges in shades from medium to dark. Like brown hair, it is common with a wide array of skin-tones and eye-colors, but as is the case with most red hair, it is commonly associated with light skin features. The chemical pigments that cause the coloration of auburn hair are frequently pheomelanin with high levels of eumelanin, however the auburn hair is conditionated by the mutated MC1R in the people of Northwestern European descent and by the mutated TYRP1 in the Austronesians, both that genes reduce the melanin production of the hair cells.

Differentiation

"Auburn" can be used to describe many shades of reddish hair with similar definitions or hues. It is often conflated in popular usage with Titian hair. While Titian hair is a brownish shade of red hair, auburn hair is specifically defined as including the actual color red. Most definitions of Titian hair describe it as a brownish-orange color,^[1][2] but some describe it as being reddish.^[3] This is in reference to red hair itself, not the color red.

Auburn encompasses the color maroon, but so too do chestnut and burgundy. In contrast with the two, auburn is more red in color, while chestnut is more brown, and burgundy is more purple; chestnut hair is also often referred to as "chestnut-brown".

Etymology

The word "auburn" comes from the Old French word alborne, which meant blond, coming from Latin word alburnus ("off-white"). The first recorded use of auburn in English was in 1430.^[4][5] The word was sometimes corrupted into abram, for example in early (pre-1685) folios of Coriolanus, Thomas Kyd's Soliman and Perseda (1588) and Thomas Middleton's Blurt, Master Constable (1601).^[6]

Geographic distribution

Anne Boleyn had dark auburn hair^[7]

Auburn hair is common among people of northern and western European descent,^[8] but it is rare elsewhere. Auburn hair occurs most frequently in the following countries: Scandinavia, Ireland, England, Scotland, Germany, the Benelux countries, France, Poland, north Iberia and Russia. This hair color is less common farther south and southeast, but can occur somewhat regularly in Southern Europe (more so in Spain, and to some extent Portugal and Italy). It can also be found in other parts of the world colonized by genetically European people, such as North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Siberia, etc. This color is sometimes seen among the indigenous people of Formosa (Taiwan), is more common among tne Formosan aborigines than among the normal people of Northwestern European descent, however isn't conditioned by the mutated MC1R gene which reduce the melanin production and actually is conditioned by the mutated TYRP1 gene which reduce the melanin prodution, but is absent in the later Chinese immigrants.

See also

• Blond hair
• Titian hair

References

1. "Titian" in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary
2. "Titian" in The Free Dictionary
3. "Titian" on Dictionary.com
4. "Auburn" in the Online Etymology Dictionary
5. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 190; Color Sample of Auburn Page 37 Plate 7 Color Sample C11
6. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
7. Denny, J. Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen. Da Capo Press. 2004. page 19.
8. Moffat, Alistair. "Celts' red hair could be attributed to the cloudy weather". Retrieved 31 December 2014.

External links

• Online Etymology Dictionary