Lion is a

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that is a representation of the average color of the fur of a lion. The lion is a feline top predator found in

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and

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. The lion was poetically called the '' king of beasts'' in the

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, one of the bases of

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. The first recorded use of ''lion'' as a color name in English was in 1551. Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 198; Color Sample of Lion: Page 49 Plate 13 Color Sample G7

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