sage green

grayish to yellowish green.

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What does “Indigenous” mean?

First recorded in 1800–10

sage-green, adjective

She was dressed in a gown of an indeterminate shade between drab and sage-green, which did its best to annul her.
The Summons|A.E.W. Mason
She said with a smile, “The sage-green dress can be made quite useful; but I rather despair of the magenta.”
The School Queens|L. T. Meade
He had attended his last surgery case and the door of the "shop," with its sage-green windows, had been locked for the night.
The Green Rust|Edgar Wallace
In colour he was a sage-green, his limbs were round and had the appearance of geranium stalks.
The Coming of the Fairies|Arthur Conan Doyle

The roar of a waterfall came to her ears, and afar on the sage-green carpet of the lower mesa a horseman was galloping swiftly.
Cavanagh: Forest Ranger|Hamlin Garland