bottle green

plural bottle greens

1. countableuncountableA dark green colour, like that of some wine bottles.

   He stopped to look at a shop selling ladies' wear, and stared for a long time at a bottle-green suit of corduroy slacks.

   1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35

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   Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.

   1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292

comparative more bottle green · superlative most bottle green

1. Of a dark green colour, like that of some wine bottles.