Pullman brown

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A shade of brown originally used on Pullman cars and later by UPS.
    — UPS has used the color for its trucks since 1916, when it was called Pullman brown. The reason the company chose brown is "that it was the epitome of luxury at the time," a former UPS executive told The New York Times in 1998.

词源

Named after Pullman, a rail company which used the colour on many of its cars.
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