Lincoln green

American  

noun

1. an olive-green color.

2. British Obsolete. a forester's outfit, perhaps of bright green.

   clad in Lincoln green.

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Lincoln green British  

noun

1. 1. a yellowish-green or brownish-green colour

   2. ( as adjective )

      a Lincoln-green suit

2. a cloth of this colour

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Etymology

Origin of Lincoln green

1500–10; so called from the color of a fabric originally made in Lincoln, England

Example Sentences

It centres on the origins of the man who, according to legend, did his good deeds dressed in Lincoln green – although, ever the revisionist, Scott has mischievously dropped that particular hue from his movie.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2010

This man was as notable as the sycamore, far he stood or lay seven feet without his shoes, and he was dressed in nothing but a kind of kilt made of Lincoln green worsted.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

And who is this fellow in rags and shreds of Lincoln green that rides at thy side like a comrade?

From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay

They a’ were in ae livery clad, O’ the Lincoln green sae fair to see; The knight and his ladye in purple clad; O gif they lived right royallie!

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank

"Come in, My yellow-hammers," roared the Friar Tuck Of this mad morrice, "come you into church, My nightingales, my scraps of Lincoln green, And hear my sermon!"

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred