olive

• [257:1] It is a grey October day; the sea is in "stripes like a snake"--olive-pale near the land, black and "spotted white with the wind" in the distance. —  Browning's Heroines
• | Genuine Ultramarine Rose Madder Brilliant Ultramarine Mars Red French Ultramarine Ochres New Blue Vermilions Permanent Blue It should be noted that all the above reds do not afford pure purples with blue; those which contain more or less yellow, as cadmium red and orange vermilion, furnish purples partaking more or less of olive, which is a compound of purple and green. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• It partakes in a proportionate measure of the powers, properties, and relations of its archeus: accordingly, the antagonist or harmonizing contrast of olive is a deep orange_. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• Like blue, olive is a retiring colour, the most so of all the colours, being the penultimate of the scale, or nearest of all in relation to black, and last, theoretically, of the regular distinctions of colours. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• Of the fruits, the banana and strawberry contain a trace of fat, while the olive is the only fruit rich in fat As a food, fat is used in three forms. —  The Mother and Her Child

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