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  • noun Alternative spelling of leaf green.
  • adjective Having leaf green as its colour.

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Examples

  • No, this, one was tightly bound, helpless, its leaf-green claws tied close to its bark-brown body, swinging head down.

    Falcon Street 2010

  • Maidie opted for a muslin of leaf-green, and a silk of dark blue.

    Gatlinburg 2010

  • Desert foliage comes in many shades, but rarely in typical leaf-green.

    Adaptations of desert plants 2009

  • I mean, look at that bland white and leaf-green, drearily homogeneous "cityscape."

    IwamotoScott: City of the Future « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog 2008

  • The flares made a sphere of leaf-green light around them, and only the occasional wisp of moisture fluttering past showed that they were moving at all.

    Sun of Suns 2006

  • I need to practice being still though my fingers got a little itchy at times, especially when I was watching Sarah knit a-sweater-that-I-covet with beautiful leaf-green silk alpaca blend.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Kate 2005

  • See us, Ramon thought, as if by pushing with his mind he might reach through space and leaf-green obscurity.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • She had felt young and dissipated, had thought rather well of her black and leaf-green suit, but as she watched them, thin of ankle, soft under the chin, seventeen or eighteen at most, smoking cigarettes with the correct ennui and talking of “bedroom farces” and their desire to

    Main Street 2004

  • Istra was curled on the bed in a leaf-green silk kimono with a great gold-mounted medallion pinned at her breast.

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

  • All wore leaf-green hose topped with tunics of various light and bright colors.

    This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

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