Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Green as grass; specifically, somewhat yellowish-green, of full chroma but rather low luminosity, suggesting rather than resembling the color of grass in the sunlight.
- n. The color of grass.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Green with grass.
- adj. Of the color of grass; clear and vivid green.
Examples
“While the temperatures hovered in the teens, I witnessed Will Ryman's playful urban Eden -- 25-foot stemmed cotton candy pink and Venetian red roses with grass-green colored foot-long thorns -- sprouting.”
The Huffington Post: Susan Sawyers: Will Ryman's Winter Rose Garden
“While the temperatures hovered in the teens, I witnessed Will Ryman s playful urban Eden -- 25-foot stemmed cotton candy pink and Venetian red roses with grass-green colored foot-long thorns -- sprouting.”
The Huffington Post: Susan Sawyers: Will Ryman's Winter Rose Garden
“Saturday morning, while the temperatures hovered in the teens, I witnessed Will Ryman's playful urban Eden - 25-foot stemmed cotton candy pink and Venetian red roses with grass-green colored foot-long thorns - sprouting nearby.”
The Huffington Post: Susan Sawyers: Will Ryman's Winter Rose Garden
“Most of the decorating theft will come from Mr. Gili's own country house and studio in Piedmont: threadbare American flags as makeshift slipcovers, wall-mounted marlins next to Italian candelabras, starfish glued to marble mantels, grass-green window frames against blue walls, pillows tied with silk scarves.”
“With grass-green banks, where cluster'd villas peep,”
“Antipholus of Syracuse (Daniel Weyman) and Antipholus of Ephesus (Daniel Llewelyn-Williams) hold up amusingly – tall fellows in grass-green blazers.”
The Guardian: The Comedy of Errors; Salome; Lift: Life Streaming
“Quicksilver lounged in front of Tallgrass on the grass-green carpeting in his “Sphinx” position, belly down and forelegs extended.”
“The friend part of their relationship, she thought, as she swallowed two grass-green pills with a slug of water, definitely did not start then.”
“He had butter in a grass-green container and butter in a clear glass container; lard in red or yellow container and lard in a clear container.”
“When it's warm out, she prefers stones such as grass-green peridot, watery blue aquamarine and citrines that "look like a drop of honey.”
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