With the sense ‘resembling steel’ (in colour, hardness, etc.), as steel gloss; steel-bright, steel-hard, steel-sharp, steel-straight, steel-strong…

(a) adj. of a green colour resembling that of moss; (b) n. this colour.

Originally: any of various dark colours or shades, like those used for bottle glass. Later: spec. = bottle-green, n. Now somewhat rare.

In the drapery trade, name for a dark green colour verging on black.

applied by Scott to the ‘Lincoln green’, said in the ballads to be the special costume of Robin Hood and his men; hence (?), used as the commercial…

(a) n. a dark olive green colour, as found on the uniforms of many early British rifle regiments; (b) adj. of this shade of green.

(a) a dark green vegetable dye made from spinach; (b) a dark green colour; also attributive or as adj.

(see quot. 1957).

Short for moss green adj. n. at compounds 2a.

Any of various shades of green typically used for or resembling the colour of army uniforms; esp. a dark olive-green colour.

a dark green colour; clothes of this colour; also attributive.

A heavy waterproof woollen cloth. Used attributively to designate garments made of this material, as loden cloak, loden cloth, loden coat, loden j…