Definitions
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- adjective of grey tinged with olive
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Examples
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It's faded from it's original sage green to a kind of olive-gray sheen, and the kids have grafitti'd it with several marker streaks that we haven't been able to get out.
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His reward, and my redemption for the errors of the day before, came wrapped in olive-gray feathers.
Young Guns 2007
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Both eyestalks had retracted as far as they could, giving the native's eyes the appearance of resting directly on the cap-like upper portion of its olive-gray body.
Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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The olive-gray eyes remained steady, not a glimmer of doubt on their calm surface.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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The truculent set of her features and the hard flash in her olive-gray eyes were warnings for those in her way to move.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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The olive-gray eyes remained steady, not a glimmer of doubt on their calm surface.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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The truculent set of her features and the hard flash in her olive-gray eyes were warnings for those in her way to move.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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The olive-gray eyes remained steady, not a glimmer of doubt on their calm surface.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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The truculent set of her features and the hard flash in her olive-gray eyes were warnings for those in her way to move.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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The olive-gray eyes remained steady, not a glimmer of doubt on their calm surface.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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