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Olive-gray   /ˈɑləv-greɪ/   Listen
Olive-gray

adjective
1.
Of grey tinged with olive.  Synonym: olive-grey.






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"Olive-gray" Quotes from Famous Books



... its morning bath on the left, and sank to its evening bath on the right, and in making its climb of the spacious arc between, shed a heat as great as that of summer, but not the heat of summer, on the pretty world of villas and hotels, towered over by the olive-gray slopes of the pine-clad heights behind and above them. From these tops a fine, keen cold fell with the waning afternoon, which sharpened through the sunset till the dusk; but in the morning the change was from the chill ...
— Between The Dark And The Daylight • William Dean Howells

... Upper parts olive-gray or Quaker color all over, smooth and shiny; wings tinged with bright cinnamon, and most of the tail-feathers black, with large white spots ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues



Words linked to "Olive-gray" :   achromatic, neutral



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