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Definition of Bottle-green
1. Adjective. Of a dark to moderate greyish green color.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottle-green
Literary usage of Bottle-green
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Analyst (1877)
"The specimen remains grey, tinged with green, bottle green, or yellowish.
Sometimes (black elder) it acquires a lilac tint, which almost immediately ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1901)
"... except in the color of the back, which in the new form is bottle-green, without
a trace of the pale bronzy-green of the same part in P. ..."
3. My First Holiday; Or, Letters Home from Colorado, Utah, and California. by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1881)
"... struggle with a friend who always insisted on buying scarlet cloth when he
was sent for bottle- green, as the scarlet always came of finer quality ! ..."
4. Carpentry and Building (1905)
"... the body of the work being Colonial yellow, trim, including water table, corner
boards, casings, bands and veranda posts, of bottle green ; the blinds ..."
5. Foods: Their Composition and Analysis: A Manual for the Use of Analytical by Alexander Wynter Blyth (1896)
"The filtrate changes to bottle-green, or reddish-green. ... The filtrate is clear
bottle-green. A sample treated with sodium carbonate (as atC. ..."
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