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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

olivesheen en · ADJ

Etymology

From olive + sheen.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) 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. 1994, Lance Olsen, Tonguing the Zeitgeist, page 11:

olivesheen en · NOUN

Etymology

From olive + sheen.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) 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. 2000, Jennifer Atkinson, The Drowned City, page 27: