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  • adjective having the color of green olives

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Examples

  • "Light olive-colored walls, essentially a gray green," she says, can work in almost any room.

    Lavender, Wisteria, or Black? How to Pick a Wall Color 2011

  • Rebels identified him, by his olive-colored uniform, as a Gadhafi loyalist.

    Fighting Flares in Tense Tripoli Charles Levinson 2011

  • Rio Grande's Wyndham Rio Mar Beach Resort and Spa sits on 500 acres along a quiet beach. 600 rooms and suites in the creamy olive-colored building face the ocean or the El Yunque National Forest.

    Dwight Brown: Puerto Rico: A Sea, Sand and City Vacation Dwight Brown 2010

  • Dawuni was a slim man wearing a shiny pastel-green boubou and a traditional olive-colored cap with white stars threaded around it.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • Dawuni was a slim man wearing a shiny pastel-green boubou and a traditional olive-colored cap with white stars threaded around it.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • Rio Grande's Wyndham Rio Mar Beach Resort and Spa sits on 500 acres along a quiet beach. 600 rooms and suites in the creamy olive-colored building face the ocean or the El Yunque National Forest.

    Dwight Brown: Puerto Rico: A Sea, Sand and City Vacation Dwight Brown 2010

  • Thick olive-colored scales covered most of his face and bald head, revealing occasional blotches of pink skin.

    The Three Furies Kaza Kingsley 2010

  • Dawuni was a slim man wearing a shiny pastel-green boubou and a traditional olive-colored cap with white stars threaded around it.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • Tangles of olive-colored plants were visible beneath his boat.

    Myanmar's Golden Pond 2010

  • Rio Grande's Wyndham Rio Mar Beach Resort and Spa sits on 500 acres along a quiet beach. 600 rooms and suites in the creamy olive-colored building face the ocean or the El Yunque National Forest.

    Dwight Brown: Puerto Rico: A Sea, Sand and City Vacation Dwight Brown 2010

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