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Green olive   /grin ˈɑləv/   Listen
Green olive

noun
1.
Olives picked green and pickled in brine; infrequently stuffed with e.g. pimento.





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... bands of blue (hoist side), yellow, and red; emblem in center of flag is of a Roman eagle of gold outlined in black with a red beak and talons carrying a yellow cross in its beak and a green olive branch in its right talons and a yellow scepter in its left talons; on its breast is a shield divided horizontally red over blue with a stylized ox head, star, rose, and crescent all in black-outlined yellow; same color scheme ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... bells. In other districts, early on New Year's morning, lads run about with sticks or clubs, knock people up, cry out good wishes, and expect to be rewarded with something to eat. Elsewhere again they carry green olive- or cornel-boughs, and touch with them everyone they meet.{39} We have already considered various similar customs, the noise and knocking being apparently intended to drive away evil spirits, and the green boughs to bring folks into contact with the ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles


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