Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shade of green such as that of green or fresh peas. It is luminous but not very chromatic, not markedly yellowish nor bluish.

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  • adjective of a moderate slightly yellowish-green color

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Examples

  • Two days after, when I looked at it again, the shepherdess's attire was changed -- she had on no longer the pea-green dress over the salmon, but a _salmon_ dress over a _pea-green_ slip.

    Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

  • There she is in a pea-green poncho and a Panama hat.

    vélo - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Olivier Theyskens Theyskens' Theory resort collection The most surprising of these shots of color came in a series of acid washed denim jackets and shorts, dyed in pea-green and faded brick red.

    Seriously Playful Ray A. Smith 2011

  • Olivier Theyskens Theyskens' Theory resort collection The most surprising of these shots of color came in a series of acid washed denim jackets and shorts, dyed in pea-green and faded brick red.

    Seriously Playful Ray A. Smith 2011

  • There she is in a pea-green poncho and a Panama hat.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • There she is in a pea-green poncho and a Panama hat.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • Esther Kläs/Peter Blum Gallery, New York Esther Kläs's 'All in' (2011) at Peter Blum Chelsea But the work of Ms. Klas (b. 1981) is more reductive and less traditionally crafted—assembled in something easy and light called aquaresin, which she then colors in a range of neutrals, from military pea-green to dark brown to off-white.

    Abstracts (Subtle or Semi) And Bold Dimensions Peter Plagens 2011

  • Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells.

    All Gold Cañon 2010

  • The porch roof slices at a slight downward angle into a narrow, two-story, pea-green shoebox, which looks as if its solar-paneled lid is being lifted by an unseen hand.

    Houses of the Future 2009

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