Nile green

noun

1. pale bluish green.

Nile green

noun

1. 1. a pale bluish-green colour
   2. ( as adjective )

      a Nile-green dress

Word History and Origins

Origin of Nile green¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

She was wearing a gown of Nile green pongee, heavily trimmed with expensive ecru lace.

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It was one of those clear, nile-green sunrises whose lucent depths go back a million miles or so; and my spirit followed on wings.

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The boy's complexion ran through the palette, and subsided from a dull Indian-red to a sickly Nile-green.

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Like some lost wanderer from the moon itself a great moth with nile-green wings fell flopping on the grass at the girl's feet.

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She had put on the Nile green dress, the one in which Daniel saw her for the first time.

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