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turquoise-green

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A somewhat pale color intermediate between green and blue.

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Examples

  • Laduree had the nicest muted turquoise-green entrance in a somewhat art-deco style with a butterly motif and purple accents.

    My First Day in Paris Ayala Sender 2009

  • Laduree had the nicest muted turquoise-green entrance in a somewhat art-deco style with a butterly motif and purple accents.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Ayala Sender 2009

  • Ms. Biondi helped Ms. Shennan pull together 10 outfits from pieces she already owns, including combinations such as her four-year-old gray pencil skirt paired with a green satin cocktail shell and a turquoise-green cardigan.

    Fashion's Closet Raiders 2008

  • There is no feature of Sicilian food more strange than the outlandish colors on display in pastry shops: cassata, a sponge cake with ricotta cheese encased in stripes of iced marzipan in white and pale turquoise-green decorated with multihued candied fruit; and “Martorana Fruit”—marzipan dyed with garish greens, reds, and yellows and sculpted into the shape of watermelon slices, figs, and prickly pears.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • He was a mixture of Cajun, Negro, and Chitimacha Indian; his skin was the color of burnt brick, and he had tiny, turquoise-green eyes and a pie-plate face you could break a barrel slat across without his changing expression.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

  • He was a mixture of Cajun, Negro, and Chitimacha Indian; his skin was the color of burnt brick, and he had tiny, turquoise-green eyes and a pie-plate face you could break a barrel slat across without his changing expression.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

  • He was a mixture of Cajun, Negro, and Chitimacha Indian; his skin was the color of burnt brick, and he had tiny, turquoise-green eyes and a pie-plate face you could break a barrel slat across without his changing expression.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

  • He was a mixture of Cajun, Negro, and Chitimacha Indian; his skin was the color of burnt brick, and he had tiny, turquoise-green eyes and a pie-plate face you could break a barrel slat across without his changing expression.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

  • Ch'in Ying painted in the Academic Style, indicating every detail, however small, and showing preference for a turquoise-green ground.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • According to the custom of engaged couples, she kept a distance from her fiancé, only to charm him more, enticing him with the lovely movements of her body, veiled in the fleecy scarlet vest embroidered with flowers, and the blazes of her turquoise-green, almond-shaped eyes.

    Grazia Deledda - Prose 1926

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