bottle green
- noun
- /ˈbɑtəl ɡrin/
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- The garden was filled with exotic plants, some displaying vibrant bottle green leaves.
So like we've got a dining room that I think would look amazing, like a super dark bottle green.
- So like we've got a dining room that I think would look amazing, like a super dark bottle green.
Examples
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The artist chose a bottle green paint to give the room a rich, warm atmosphere.
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The hot sky was tinted bottle green by the windshield.
Fiction book (2002) -
Her hair was bowl-cut, but her eyes were still Coke-bottle green, and when she saw me, something impish flashed through them.
Fiction book (2001) -
Celia was beautiful, part Indian, part imp, with Coke-bottle green eyes and skin that somehow let you know it wasn't white, though it was nougat-pale and creamy.
Fiction book (2001) -
She wore a stunning dress in bottle green that caught everyone's attention at the party.
Synonyms
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1.0
A deep shade of green like pine needles
Dark green like the glass of a bottle
How Dark
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a dark shade of green resembling green glass bottles' is directly derivable from combining 'bottle' (invoking the color of green glass) with 'green' and follows a common English pattern for color names (e.g., 'olive green', 'forest green'). A B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer this refers to a particular shade of green, so the expression is transparent.
Etymology
Bottle green may come from the deep green color of old glass bottles; imagine the dark glass of a wine or beer bottle and you have the color. So today bottle green means a deep, rich 'green' shade.