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olive-green

NOUN
  1. a color that is lighter and greener than olive

How To Use olive-green In A Sentence

  • Its giant gilded strongbox glared bullion-brilliant, and paradoxically appeared to float at the centre of a giant olive-green pool.
  • I grabbed tan cargo pants, a dark green formfitting t-shirt, then an olive-green button down that was rather wrinkled from being on the floor.
  • At El Bulli your cocktail may be a "deconstructed" martini: a small, wobbly olive-green sphere filled with the essence of olive and served on a spoon, accompanied by gin and vermouth spritzed on your tongue. Putting on Airs
  • They are small olive-green birds with yellowish underparts, and their song is quite unique. Times, Sunday Times
  • I collected lots of olive-green botryoidal pyromorphite on quartz matrix.
  • The young leaves are a distinctive and beautiful olive-green. Times, Sunday Times
  • He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various stones that he had collected, such as the olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red by lamplight, the cymophane with its wire-like line of silver, the pistachio-colored peridot, rose-pink and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet with tremulous four-rayed stars, flame - red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet spinels, and amethysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • I found no less than three yielded beautiful purple-red colors, apparently as fine as orchil or cudbear, while the others furnished rich and dark tints of brownish-red, brown and olive-green. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • I grabbed tan cargo pants, a dark green formfitting t-shirt, then an olive-green button down that was rather wrinkled from being on the floor.
  • how cunningly the olive-green dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her perfect figure
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