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  • I am Eliza Doolittle for the next two hours, and a few scenes later when I reappear, elegant, wearing a bottle-green velvet gown, I hear the collective gasp of the audience.

    Over the Moon Jodi Picoult 2011

  • I am Eliza Doolittle for the next two hours, and a few scenes later when I reappear, elegant, wearing a bottle-green velvet gown, I hear the collective gasp of the audience.

    Over the Moon Jodi Picoult 2011

  • The sea peeked through at every turn, now bottle-green in the midafternoon sun.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • The sea peeked through at every turn, now bottle-green in the midafternoon sun.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • Free Decorator Eric Piasecki WELL-POLISHED: Classicist Stephen Gambrel's shiny bottle-green walls hold court without hogging the conversation.

    Shine On, Glossy Walls Sara Ruffin Costello 2010

  • I was allowed to attend the ceremony, to which I wore a beautiful pair of bottle-green velvet short trousers which Mum sewed for me, a pair of fire-engine red patent leather buckled shoes, white socks, and a little white shirt with smocking and a frilly round collar, extremely smart.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Head through the bottle-green industrial front doors on notoriously arty Vyner Street and up a sloping walkway and you will emerge in this classic white cube gallery.

    10 of the best arts venues in north London 2011

  • I am Eliza Doolittle for the next two hours, and a few scenes later when I reappear, elegant, wearing a bottle-green velvet gown, I hear the collective gasp of the audience.

    Over the Moon Jodi Picoult 2011

  • She wore the green of her House, deep bottle-green ballgown, grand and beautiful.

    Tew's Day! yuki_onna 2009

  • The sea peeked through at every turn, now bottle-green in the midafternoon sun.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

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