Does Wien's displacement law apply to non-black bodies?

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Do Wien's displacement law hold true even for bodies with emissivity not equal to 1, that is, non-black bodies?
 
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No.
Just imagine the body which emissivity is non-zero only in some narrow span (e.g. vapour of Sodium). Regardless of temperature its maximum of emission is always yellow.