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sap-green, n. (and a.)
[f. sap n.1 + green, prob. after Du. sapgroen.]
1. A green pigment prepared from the juice of buckthorn berries; also, the colour of this pigment.
1578in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 294 Sape greene quarter li. iis. 1612Peacham Gentl. Exerc. 83 Take Sappe greene, and lay it in sharpe vinegar. 1686R. Blome Gentl. Recr. i. 219 Sap-green is a dirty dark Green, and of little use, except to Shadow in the dark places. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) III. 366/2 The next operation is the sprinkling the leaves of the book; which is done by dipping a brush into vermilion and sap-green. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 520 The colour called Sap-green is prepared by evaporating to dryness the juice of the Buckthorn berries previously mixed with lime. 1881E. J. Worboise Sissie xxxviii, St. Peter in royal purple and sap-green.
2. attrib. and adj.
1658W. Sanderson Graphice 42 Her Knots and choyce Riband sap-green and silver. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xi, Landscapes with sap-green trees and mazareen-blue rivers. 1848Zoologist VI. 1979 Those specimens I saw myself were of a yellowish sap-green colour. |