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fairy green

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noun

  1. a medium yellow-green color.


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All the earth is fairy green, And the sunlight filmy gold, Full of ecstasies unseen, Full of mysteries untold.

From Later Poems by Bliss Carman

A dream of fairy green and delicate pink and shy blue sky melting into pearl.

From The Red Planet by William John Locke

With a soúth-wésterly wínd blústering, with a tide rolls    reels Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas    in; seen Únderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges

Streaks fairy green are traced on backward ways, Through vacant regions lightly overleapt, With pauses, where in soft pathetic haze Are phantoms of the joys that died unwept.

From Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory

Indeed this lady was clad all in the fairy green, and her eyes were as blue as the sky above her head, and the long yellow locks on her shoulders were shining like the sun.

From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang

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