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1500–10; so called from the color of a fabric originally made in Lincoln, England

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Example Sentences

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Lincoln green

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

"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 Alfred Noyes

A trio and chorus follow, in the course of which the Bishop parts with his personal possessions in favor of the gentlemen around him in Lincoln green with “bent bows.”

From The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

And this man's hair was red, and his beard, beneath coal grime, was a curly red, and his coat, beneath a crust of black filth, was Lincoln green and of a good cloth.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford

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