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bottle green

noun

  1. a deep green.


bottle green

noun

    1. a dark green colour
    2. ( as adjective )

      a bottle-green car

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • bottle-green adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bottle green1

First recorded in 1810–20
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Example Sentences

He was an elderly gentleman with a large bald head; he wore spectacles and a bottle-green coat with brass buttons.

There is not a breath the bottle-green wave to curl, and the sun shines as if Odin had redeemed his other eye.

She was gowned in a tightly fitting tailor-made dress of bottle green, trimmed with gold.

A sing-song Welsh voice commented devastatingly on the vanity of bottle-green dress-coats and their wearers.

The dog pulls a hidden string and Petit Patou is clad in a bottle green dress-coat.

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