forest green
Americannoun
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Origin of forest green
First recorded in 1800–10
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The word “Coachella” is placed in free-flowing sprawl across the top, punctuated with a forest green gradient and bright orange stroke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
It was a deep forest green and managed to warm up the gray living room.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2023
These striking pants, based on an actual 1940s quilt, emulate the handmade warmth and quirkiness of the quilts we love with their zigzag stitches and blocks of pink, forest green, maroon and navy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
On the street outside, a forest green maintenance vehicle with a poster of a young Mullah Omar — the founder of the Taliban movement — plastered on the windshield raced past.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Hester was no beauty; she was about as plain and scrawny as a hare could be; but her eyes were marvelously colored, gold-hazel flecked with rays of deepest peat brown and forest green.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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