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Chartreuse Is Yellow-Green, Not Magenta-Pink
This well-spotted example of the Mandela effect got us scratching our heads. Like many people, we believed for too long that the color chartreuse was a combination of magenta and pink. As it turns out, the word actually refers to a combination of the colors yellow and green!
A word of French origin, “chartreuse,” comes from an 18th-century French liqueur called green chartreuse. The confusion can be explained by the fact a liqueur called yellow chartreuse was also available at the time.
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