chartreuse

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CHARTRUESE: The color quickly becoming a signature one for Mrs. O is known as chartreuse, which is exactly 50 percent green and 50 percent yellow.

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  1. noun A strong to brilliant greenish yellow to moderate or strong yellow green.

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  • It was chartreuse, a color that had been a fad in the late twenties. —  Futures Imperfect
  • Things I didn't think she'd even know, like "chartreuse" or "clam-digging." —  beyond the pale
  • CHARTRUESE: The color quickly becoming a signature one for Mrs. O is known as chartreuse, which is exactly 50 percent green and 50 percent yellow. —  Black America Web
  • Bullet shaped jigs with horsehair skirts and chartreuse, pink or white curl tails do the trick.
  • Though technology is very seasonal, it doesn't exactly shout spring like a chartreuse scarf from J. Crew, although the bamboo-covered Dell Studio hybrid comes close. —  TheDartmouth.com | America's Oldest College Newspaper. Founded 1799.
 

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