BOTTLE-GREEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bottle-green mean? 

• BOTTLE-GREEN (adjective)
  The adjective BOTTLE-GREEN has 1 sense:

1. of a dark to moderate greyish green color

  Familiarity information: BOTTLE-GREEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTTLE-GREEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a dark to moderate greyish green color

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

“Stay where you are, Corcoran,” said he; and I caught a glimpse of a bottle-green coat which told me who was his travelling companion.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Cut the ropes! Fair play! Wait till the rain stops!” roared a stentorian voice behind me, and I saw that it came from the big man with the bottle-green coat.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A very tall man, who showed a pair of broad, bottle-green shoulders high above his neighbours, was looking very hard in our direction, and I assured myself that a quick exchange of almost imperceptible signals was going on between him and the Corinthian baronet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)