olive-drab
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6.3
- adjective
- /ˈɑlɪv dræb/
:
verde olivo
- He was young—fifteen or sixteen—and the sleeves of his olive drab coat were rolled up over his thin arms.
- olive-drab shirt
- olive-drab army
- soldier dressed in olive-drab
Examples
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Matt was glad of her thick olive-drab army jacket.
Fiction book (1996) -
He looked out of place in the kitchen, in his jeans and olive drab T-shirt.
Fiction book (1991) -
An olive-drab uniform appeared at the driver's side window, which Martin had already rolled down.
Fiction book (1994) -
An olive-drab truck rolls across the bridge, loaded with soldiers in uniform, who wave to the boy who has just thrown the stick.
Fiction book (2002) -
Olive-drab tankers rolled in from Camp Shelby and dumped water into tanks so the cows could drink.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's a Norman Rockwell scene at a train depot, with an army-issue olive drab duffel bag slung over his shoulder.
Fiction book (2001) -
Two hundred men and women in olive drab flight suits moved smartly to their feet as Air Force Brigadier General Calvin Jarrel and his staff entered the auditorium briefing room.
Fiction book (1991) -
The straps and the harness were as sound as the day I put them away, although I didn't remember the olive-drab webbing being so faded and stained.
Fiction book (1999) -
"My god, a barracks bag!" The U.S. Army issues one to each soldier: bombproof canvas, olive drab, into which he can stuff boots, socks, underwear, uniforms, toilet kit, and whatnot.
Fiction book (2001) -
The soldier wore an olive-drab jacket while on duty in the field.
Synonyms
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2.3
A dull yellow-green color often used for clothes and walls
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5.3
Having a light brownish green color often used for cloth and uniforms
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5.1
A dull green-brown color often used for military clothes and gear
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3.7
A yellow-green color like green olives
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2.4
A dark yellowish green color like leaves and army uniforms
A brown color with a greenish tinge like green olives
A brown color with a small touch of green like olives
A gray color with a hint of olive green
A dark grey-green color often used for clothing
A yellowish green color slightly lighter than dark green
How Olive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Olive-drab comes from the color olive, after the green olive fruit, and drab, a word that means 'dull brown'. So olive-drab means a dull brownish-green color, and that is why it is used for army clothes and gear to help hide people and equipment.