Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A yellowish-green color.
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Examples
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She wore a coat of gosling-green with facings of primrose-yellow, and when she fell and barked the knee of one stocking I took her to old Martha, and old Martha mended her.
If You Touch Them They Vanish Gouverneur Morris 1914
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"And did he die?" said the nice little man in gosling-green.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887
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"And what did he die of?" continued gosling-green, following him up.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887
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Eyes gosling-green, both bleary, one of them bloodshot.
The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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When I made my first visit to these remote and lonely regions, the scattered woods through which we rode for many miles were gay in their first gosling-green suit of half-opened leaves, and the forest odours which exhaled with the dews of morning and evening, were beyond measure delicious to one “long in populous cities pent.”
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He has discarded the gosling-green cords for cream-coloured leathers, and, to please Lucy, has actually substituted a pair of rose-tinted tops for the
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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