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Definition of "olive-green" []

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "olive-green" in a sentence
  • "She stared as Eric Redding leapt out of the car like the fit Mall runner he was, in his checked brown tweed jacket and his velvet olive-green pants and creamy checked shirt, leather loafers, unable to help the realization that was crowding her well-clad-for-fall body from the top of her combed hair to her properly shod feet: They were both here."
  • "A first-floor office has an octagonal table and an olive-green leather-top desk like that in Jefferson's office, and pink curtains that are a nod to the curtains in Monticello's parlor."
  • "Now they are simply "them," while in the maternity hospitals no one chooses names from that olive-green lineage for their newborns."