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grass-green, a. (and n.)
(Stress variable.)
[Cf. MDu. grasgroene (Du. grasgroen), MHG. grasgrüene (G. grasgrün), ON. grasgrønn (Da. græsgrøn, Sw. gräsgrön).]
1. Green as grass; having the colour of grass.
a700Epinal Gloss. 298 Carpassini, gresgro[e]ni. 13..K. Alis. 299 Mercury he made gras-grene. a1593Marlowe Jew of Malta i. (1633) B 2, Iacints, hard Topas, grasse-greene Emeraulds. 1641French Distill. vi. (1651) 193 There will remaine..a grasse-green Liquor. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 424 Oxide of nickel is employed to give colours to enamels and porcelain; in different mixtures it produces brown red, and grass green tints. 1842Tennyson Sir Launcelot & Q. Guinevere 24 A gown of grass-green silk she wore. 1884–5Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 369 Tragops prasinus..is a beautiful grass-green animal, living in the jungles of India.
b. quasi-n. and n. (the adj. used absol.).
1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 83 All sorts of yellows, with their shadows intermixt with grass greens. 1696Bp. Patrick Comm. Exod. xxviii. (1697) 542 The colour of it is a Grass-green; wonderfully refreshing. 1792C. Smith Desmond III. 120 Lined with sky blue, or grass green. 1843Portlock Geol. 513 A..light oil-green colour, occasionally grass-green, and passing into bottle-green.
2. Green with grass.
1602Shakes. Ham. iv. v. 31 At his head a grasse-greene Turfe. 1742Shenstone Schoolmistress 273 When my bones in grass-green sods are laid. 1767F. Fawkes Idyll. Theocritus xiii. 32 And grass-green meads pronounc'd the summer near. 1830Tennyson Circumstance 6 Two graves grass-green beside a gray church-tower. |