The traditional colors of Christmas are green, red, and gold.

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The adjustable lights can be programmed for red and green at Christmas or orange at Halloween, Empire State Building-style.

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Many illustrators and artists, for example, preferred using the traditional Christmas colors of red and green, or even brown furs, when drawing jolly, old St.

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The first artificial Christmas trees were made in Germany using goose feathers that were dyed green.

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Now, Cookie Day sophisticates know that a colored Christmas cookie lives or dies by the quality of its red and green.

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Which of Khlomeister's costumes was your (least) fave: Green lace gift pouch, inexplicable black wetsuit, or pink and gold Christmas ribbon?

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