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To dress up something nasty so as to make it more palatable. Updates the anachronistic phrase, "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear". Essentially, while brown is an amalgam of many colours, the process of separating colours into Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet creates an object which is pretty on the outside but, nasty on the inside.
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