Nile green
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Nile green
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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During the Nazi occupation of France, Wallis Simpson got American diplomats to rescue her favourite Nile green swimsuit from the Windsors' rented villa on the Cote d'Azur.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2015
Dora is a great woman, a great big woman with flaming orange hair and a taste for Nile green evening dresses.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Her dress was no longer the Nile green; it was made of brown cloth, and on the front was a row of glistening black buttons.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
She was wearing a Nile green sports suit of soft flannel, with white facings, and white shoes and stockings and a stiff sailor hat of white straw.
From Stubble by George Looms
Favorite colors, all shades of blue, pink, and Nile green.
From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Harry L. Hollingworth
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