单词 | siskin green |
释义 | > as lemmassiskin green siskin green n. [after German †Zeißgengrün (1725 in the passage translated in quot. 1757; now Zeisiggrün); compare zeisiggrün, adjective (1638 or earlier)] a shade of light green inclining to yellow. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > yellowish green popinjayc1484 parrot green1646 gosling-green1756 siskin green1757 Pomona green1788 chrysoprase1835 Georgian green1918 honeydew1920 Pomona1969 1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia 34 But as in the colour, called siskin-green the yellow is the ground-colour, a little green only serving as a heightening. 1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 260 A peculiar sort of green approaching to sage-green, but so peculiar as to give rise to the name of ‘siskin-green’. 1902 M. Bixby Catal. Utah Minerals & Localities 15 Color. white, mountain green. siskin green. straw yellow. 1999 A. Bell tr. E. T. A. Hoffmann Life & Opinions of Tomcat Murr 76 A pretty enough sight I must have been as a boy of ten.., wearing a coat of siskin green with narrow silver embroidery. < as lemmas |
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