green soap
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of green soap
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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“The loss of his arm had apparently dulled his senses,” he says of Ollie, adding, “Now he could feel no shame that green soap and water did not remove well enough to satisfy him.”
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2011
Later on, the style was to scrub the patient off & on all day with green soap, then soak his skin the evening before the operation with a poultice of the soap.
From Time Magazine Archive
They sat down among some bristly green soap plants.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
He shows me into a small bathroom where there's a bar of green soap.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
The guards led him to a large cement bathroom with showers along the walls.They gave him a brush and a chunk of green soap.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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