leek-green
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of leek-green
First recorded in 1655–65
Example Sentences
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The next feature was Npunga Bay, low and leek-green, between the blue-brown water, here some 700 yards broad, and the yellow sun- burnt trough-sides.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
On a movable bed was hung a leek-green gauze curtain, ornamented with double embroideries, representing flowers, plants and insects.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
"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 Joly, H. Bencraft
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 White, Edward Lucas
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