olive-brown
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Females are olive-brown and males chalky blue, except during breeding season, when the males gleam a flamboyant blue.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
He first gained wide recognition with the 1961 painting “The American Dream, I,” which depicts four stars within circles and other geometric forms and is set against an olive-brown background.
From Washington Post ● May 23, 2018
The daughters had inherited her dark hair, olive-brown skin, and black-brown eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
With his olive-brown eyes and brown curls peeping out from under his wool cap, he looks like any of the thousands of Afghan boys who loiter, energetic and restless, in Pakistani refugee camps.
From Time Magazine Archive
All these lay three eggs, those of the Whiskered Tern mostly greenish with black spots, a few olive-brown.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck
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