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Pea-green   /pi-grin/   Listen
Pea-green

adjective
1.
Of a moderate slightly yellowish-green color.






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"Pea-green" Quotes from Famous Books



... played on a bird-organ, approach the charmer, or rush from the false one daintily on their red-heeled tiptoes, and die of despair or rapture, with the most pathetic little grins and ogles; or repose, simpering at each other, under an arbour of pea-green crockery; or piping to pretty flocks that have just been washed with the best Naples in a stream of Bergamot. Gay's gay plan seems to me far pleasanter than that of Philips—his rival and Pope's—a serious and dreary idyllic Cockney; not that Gay's "Bumkinets and Hobnelias" are a whit ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

... Early Erfurt.—The Erfurt varieties are characterized by light pea-green color, and stiff, more or less ...
— The Cauliflower • A. A. Crozier



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