Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A green coloring matter extracted from the juice of buckthorn-berries.
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Examples
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Both tremblingly delicate and resilient, a garlanded dryad with a soul of spices and sap-green wood.
Archive 2008-07-01 Marina Geigert 2008
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Both tremblingly delicate and resilient, a garlanded dryad with a soul of spices and sap-green wood.
Top 10 Summer Fragrances. And a Prize Draw Marina Geigert 2008
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It is the most multifaceted scent I encountered this year: sap-green lily of the valley with a salted twist of grapefruit peel, underscored by vetiver shifting from spicy and rooty to earthy and bittersweet.
Archive 2008-12-01 Marina Geigert 2008
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It is the most multifaceted scent I encountered this year: sap-green lily of the valley with a salted twist of grapefruit peel, underscored by vetiver shifting from spicy and rooty to earthy and bittersweet.
Best of 2008 and a Prize Draw Marina Geigert 2008
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With the exception of the thin line of sand, over which the sap-green water rolled itself with a constant murmur and moan, the island seemed buried under one deep stratum of verdure.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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Stalks and leaves, sap-green with a slight wash of carmine.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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-- Inside of the petals, white shaded with sap-green, or gamboge and bistre.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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-- Red lead and masticot water, shaded with sap-green and verdigris.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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When mixed with lime and evaporated to dryness, it forms the color called sap-green.
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-- Upper side, sap-green, shaded with indigo and French berries mixed; under-side, white indigo and sap-green mixed, shaded with the same.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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