˜yÐÄvlog

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leek-green

[ leek-green ]

adjective

  1. dull bluish green.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of leek-green1

First recorded in 1655–65
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Example Sentences

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Prase, prÄz, n. a leek-green quartz.—adjs.

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It has a leek-green leaf a foot long with a few brown spots.

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Some of these embroideries of flowers and arabesques are of the richest dyes, and the cherry-red is mingled with ultramarine blue and leek-green; they are sometimes interwoven with shells or tinsel; their stockings and leggings are bits of gorgeous tapestry, whilst the women's aprons are like Eastern carpets.

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Five of the Blues rolled slowly in from the right gate, five of the Greens from the left; the chariots themselves, the reins and trappings of the horses, and the tunics of the charioteers were respectively leek-green and light-blue.

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In size it very closely corresponds to the better known tomb, while its columns of dark green alabaster, its door-lintel of leek-green marble, and the slabs of red marble which closed the relieving triangle above the door show that it had been not less magnificent than its neighbour.

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