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I think the latter sounds better to me 😉

There was someone a few years back who wrote a paper on the definitive order of adjectives in English - the pattern is apparently strong enough to reach firm conclusions. e.g. that a native speaker is unlikely to say "the brown big dog" and will almost certainly use "the big brown dog".

He came up with an order, like size-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose, but it was a fair bit longer than that. It's hard to search for so I haven't got a reference. Closest I have is the one I took that 6-element one from:
english.prof/adjective-order/

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