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“Although it's nothing like a Grasshopper cocktail, it is sort of grasshopper-green.”
“I particularly admired Matt Barton's tweedy brown suit and Amanda Mountain's grasshopper-green dress, worn with an enamel butterfly at her neck.”
“On the big screen, therefore, there'd be a great deal of action-adventure plotting over the nefarious cloaking device of the Bird of Prey, the grasshopper-green Klingon warship, or the crew's efforts to barrel through the Great Barrier in order to meet the Maker, but the philosophies came off as undercooked - token oblations to the original series - and worse, the Kirk-Spock centric narratives left the rest of the cast about as resonant as Vulcan emotion.”
“This playfulness extends to the literary echoes from the West ” to the preoccupation with nose-size (blatantly, a phallic "displacement") from Tristram Shandy, to the excremental and olfactory exuberance of Rabelais, to Forster's Dr. Aziz, and to Proust's madeleine, which, in Midnight's Children, is transmogrified into a certain grasshopper-green chutney that serves as a key to the realms of lost time.”
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In The Colorhouse
A colorhouse - a manufactory of colors for tints, dyes, pigments, paints, glazes, &c. Terms associated with the science and history of colormaking.
All sorts of things went into color...colorhouse, Turkey red, dyebath, woad, ocher, lead white, mordant, Naples yellow, zaffer, kiln, vat, pot and 298 more...
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hernesheir "Visiting-dress: The dress is of grasshopper-green fine cloth." --Young Ladies' Journal, April 1895. Dec 6, 2012