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Sage-green   /seɪdʒ-grin/   Listen
Sage-green

adjective
1.
Of the grey-green color of sage leaves.  Synonym: sage.






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"Sage-green" Quotes from Famous Books



... as he is, the octopus has one dreaded foe before whom he flees in terror, and compresses his body into the narrowest and most inaccessible cleft or endeavours to bury himself in the loose, soft sand—and that foe is the orange-coloured or sage-green rock eel. Never do you see one of these eels in the open water; they lie deep under the stones or twine their lithe, slippery bodies among the waving kelp or seaweed. Always hungry, savage-eyed, and vicious, they ...
— By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories • Louis Becke

... applause came from a thin bird-like woman standing opposite, who floated towards us clad in a sage-green gown, which sheathed her like an umbrella case; had she had any figure the dress would have ...
— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris



Words linked to "Sage-green" :   chromatic, sage



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