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1500–10; so called from the color of a fabric originally made in Lincoln, England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

‘His merry men in ae livery clad, O’ the Lincoln green so fair to see; He and his ladye in purple clad; O! gif they live not royallie!

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

Oh where is band so jolly As Robin's band in their Lincoln green?

From Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces by Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke

And lastly their single attendant, the nut-headed yeoman forester, with his suit of Lincoln green, his peacock arrows, and his mighty bow.

From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.