salt-green

adjective

Sea green.

Meanings

adjectivesalt-green (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSea green.

    Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red, / Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams, / Turns into yellow gold his salt-green streams.

    c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

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