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olivesheen

noun

Etymology

From olive + sheen.

  1. derived from *(s)kewh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *skauniz✻
  3. inherited from *skaunī✻
  4. inherited from sċīene — “beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”
  5. inherited from shene
  6. compounded as olivesheen — “olive + sheen”

Definitions

  1. A dull grayish-yellow color.

    • […] looking out / on a Sargenty smear of pearl and dress silk, / olivesheen / and the vanishing stain of a passing car's taillights.

  2. Of a dull grayish-yellow color.

    • […] a young man in an olivesheen business suit and derby sitting in the lotus position under a banyan tree.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA