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Nile green
noun
- pale bluish green.
Nile green
noun
- a pale bluish-green colour
- ( as adjective )
a Nile-green dress
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Nile green1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
She was wearing a gown of Nile green pongee, heavily trimmed with expensive ecru lace.
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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.
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The boy's complexion ran through the palette, and subsided from a dull Indian-red to a sickly Nile-green.
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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.
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She had put on the Nile green dress, the one in which Daniel saw her for the first time.
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