Nile green

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noun

pale bluish green.

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Origin of Nile green

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby Nile green

nil admirari, nil desperandum, Nile, Nile blue, Nile crocodile, Nile green, Nile River, Niles, Nile Valley, nilgai, Nilgiri Hills

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How to use Nile green in a sentence

She was wearing a gown of Nile green pongee, heavily trimmed with expensive ecru lace.
Marjorie Dean College Freshman|Pauline Lester
It was one of those clear, nile-green sunrises whose lucent depths go back a million miles or so; and my spirit followed on wings.
The Killer|Stewart Edward White
The boy's complexion ran through the palette, and subsided from a dull Indian-red to a sickly Nile-green.
The Whole Family|William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Heaton
Like some lost wanderer from the moon itself a great moth with nile-green wings fell flopping on the grass at the girl's feet.
Athalie|Robert W. Chambers

She had put on the Nile green dress, the one in which Daniel saw her for the first time.
The Goose Man|Jacob Wassermann

British Dictionary definitions for Nile green

Nile green

noun

a pale bluish-green colour
(as adjective)a Nile-green dress

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