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Olive-coloured   /ˈɑləv-kˈələrd/   Listen
Olive-coloured

adjective
1.
Having the color of green olives.  Synonym: olive-colored.






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"Olive-coloured" Quotes from Famous Books



... salt to the neighbouring towns; or some Arabs leading their camels, heavily laden with the luxuries of the north and east. Everywhere human life was to be seen in its varied forms, the most cheerful and the most gloomy closely mixed together—the olive-coloured Arab, the dark Kanuri with his wide nostrils, the small-featured, light, and slender Ba-fellanchi, the broad-faced Mandingo, the stout, large-boned, and masculine Nupe female, the well-proportioned and ...
— Great African Travellers - From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley • W.H.G. Kingston

... hangings of Hungary lace very elegantly trimmed with olive-coloured cloth, and six chairs and a counterpane to match; the whole in very good condition, and lined with soft red and blue shot-silk. Item:—the tester of good pale pink Aumale serge, with the small and ...
— The Miser (L'Avare) • Moliere

... is a rather shallow loch, seldom much over fifteen feet deep, save where a long narrow rent or geological flaw runs through the bottom. The water is of a queer glaucous green, olive-coloured, or rather like the tint made when you wash out a box of water-colour paints. This is not so pretty as the black wave of Loch Awe or Loch Shin, but has a redeeming quality in the richness of the feeding for trout. These are fabled to average about a pound, but are probably a trifle under ...
— Angling Sketches • Andrew Lang



Words linked to "Olive-coloured" :   coloured, colored, colorful



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