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sap green
noun
- a green pigment obtained from the juice of buckthorn berries, used chiefly in dyes for wood, paper, and textiles.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sap green1
First recorded in 1570–80
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Example Sentences
The house is full of “sickness and strain,” which Coral escapes by walking through the “dark craw” of the nearby Sap Green Forest.
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Then comes a sap-green lackey, stiff as a ramrod, with a package under his arm.
From Project Gutenberg
Sap green (10 or 12 gr., rubbed up with a teaspoonful of hot water) is also used for the same purpose.
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The foreign is uniformly adulterated with chalk or starch, and coloured with sap green.
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Then, one morning, Will woke up to find that the ocean had changed overnight from a warm sap-green to a muddy clay-color.
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When mixed with lime and evaporated to dryness, it forms the color called sap-green.
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