eau de nil
noun/ˌəʊ.dəˈniːl/UK/ˌoʊ.dəˈniːl/US
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French eau de nil (literally “water of the Nile”).
Definitions
A pale green colour.
- It was a sprawling town of upended concrete boxes tilting pastel rectangles up towards the hot sun: soft blues, prawn reds, pale chocolates, delicate eau de nils, primrose yellows[…].
- Such colouring! — slate blues, coral pinks, pale amphitrites, the wet cobblestone blue of mussels, frail sea-forget-me-nots, anemone yellows and carmines, emeralds and eau-de-nils!
- He had painted the ceiling and window and doorframes an aqua green, the walls eau-de-nil.
Of a pale green colour.
Alternative letter-case form of eau de nil
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA