leek-green
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of leek-green
First recorded in 1655–65
Example Sentences
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It has a leek-green leaf a foot long with a few brown spots.
From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various
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
The picture is made brighter by the leek-green vegetation and by the overarching vault of glaring blue.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
La Brigida commands a fine view of the Isleta, with its black sand and white foam, leek-green waters upon the reefs, and deep offing of steely blue.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
"But make one of peach-red too and then one of leek-green."
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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