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bottle green en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Of a dark green colour, like that of some wine bottles.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
most bottle green	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
more bottle green	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic

Translations (3)

pl butelkowozielony (of a dark green color) · de flaschengrün (of a dark green color) · fi pullonvihreä (of a dark green color)

bottle green en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A dark green colour, like that of some wine bottles.
   • He stopped to look at a shop selling ladies' wear, and stared for a long time at a bottle-green suit of corduroy slacks. 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35:
   • Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises. 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
bottle greens	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (4)

pl butelkowa zieleń (dark green color) · fi pullonvihreä (dark green color) · ca verd ampolla (dark green color) · id hijau botol (dark green color)