单词 | greenish-blue |
释义 | > as lemmasgreenish-blue C1. Modifying nouns and adjectives of colour, as greenish-yellow, greenish-blue, etc. ΚΠ 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 91 Such of them as are yellowe, and of a golden colour, they commonly call Oranges: such as are of a greenishe pale yellowe, they call Cytrols, or Cytruls. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 94 Greenish yellow, or as we terme it, a goose turde greene. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 277 'Twas transparant of a greenish yellow. a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 223 The filings exposed to the air, changed colour, and became a greenish blew. 1738 J. Hoofnail New Pract. Improvem. Exper. Colours 42 The Powder will be of a Greenish Yellow Colour. 1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. II. 609 Bloss[oms] greenish white. 1803 R. Chenevix in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 296 The supernatant liquor of the precipitate..is sometimes of a fine greenish-blue. 1879 O. N. Rood Mod. Chromatics x. 141 The greenish-grey tints of the mosses. 1900 Absent-minded War 168 There is a colour known to Indian sportsmen as shikarri mixture, a sort of greenish-grey, which is practically invisible in the jungle or when working among trees. 1975 U. K. LeGuin Wind's Twelve Quarters 157 Short, dry, greenish-pink bryoform grasses stretched away in every direction. 2005 A. St. John Clapton's Guitar xi. 100 The color of a piece of Brazilian rosewood can range from a golden pumpkin to a greenish gray to a striking brick-red. < as lemmas |
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