| 单词 | grasshopper green |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrasshopper green grasshopper green adj. and n. (a) n. a bright green colour resembling that of a grasshopper; (b) adj. of a bright green colour resembling that of a grasshopper. ΚΠ 1837 M. Boddington Sketches in Pyrenees I. iii. 34 She never changed her bonnet; it was a capote of bright, tender, grasshopper green. 1864 D. Costello Mr. Grimshaw's Little Love-affair xxix, in Bentley's Misc. Jan. 271 A round jacket, not of the strictly orthodox flannel, but, for more variety, of grasshopper-green corduroy, with mother-of-pearl buttons. 1891 Cassell's Family Mag. 755/2 The new colour of the year is grasshopper green, vivid but pure. 1957 New Yorker 17 Aug. 7/1 (advt.) Mr. Wragge suggests the shirt in woodbrook brown with rock grey skirt or grasshopper green shirt with graphite grey skirt. 1988 Response Spring–Summer 130 Poland is grasshopper green On my globe. 2016 N. Cutter Little Heaven (2017) xi. 71 ‘The Safeway has Granny Smith apples. I never seen a green like them. Different than grass green or leaf green or...’ ‘Or grasshopper green?’ < as lemmas |
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