French citrin, < Latin type *citrīn-us, < citrus. Compare Italian citrino, etc.
Having the light yellow or greenish-yellow colour of a lemon or citron; lemon-coloured. (OED)
"In my Penguin English library edition, I marked what seemed to me particularly salient passages with a fluorescent yellow pen; the highlights have faded now to an almost imperceptible citrine."
- Rebecca Mead, "Middlemarch and Me: What George Eliot teaches us", February 14 & 21, 2011, The New Yorker
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