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- a pastel blue to go with the pale pink walls
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“Pastel.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastel. Accessed 27 January 2020.
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The first known use of pastel was in 1612
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