leek-green
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of leek-green
First recorded in 1655–65
Example Sentences
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Paullini and the Ephemerides mention perspiration which was of a leek-green color, and Borellus has observed deep green perspiration.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
He had been wearing their leek-green colors the day she had sat in his lap in her father's courtyard.
From The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White
Other elongated cocoa-nuts bore jauntily a black felt of 'pork-pie' order, leek-green billycocks, and anything gaudy, but not neat, in the 'tile'-line.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Henna stains white hair orange red; and the Persians apply after it a paste of indigo leaves, the result is successively leek-green, emerald-green, bottle-green and lastly lamp-black.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
But the moment she turned round, she espied a small door over which hung a soft portière, of leek-green colour, bestrewn with embroidered flowers.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
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