olive-brown
Example Sentences
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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
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
She was on the tall side, slender, rather tanned: olive-brown of skin with a wonderful smoothness to it ...
From Time Magazine Archive
Eggs dark olive-brown, with a few spots of purplish brown.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
