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Catherine, dressed in a bottle-green and percher hat, presented the traditional sprigs of shamrock to officers, guardsmen and mascot Seamus, the Irish wolfhound, at the regiment's annual parade at Wellington Barracks.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025

The unvaccinated will still be able to peruse the bottle-green stalls selling handicrafts, listen to carols, ride on the merry-go-round or admire the nativity scenes.

From Reuters • Nov. 16, 2021

D is the cloudy bottle-green of tumbled sea glass.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2020

Her bottle-green glasses came from Etsy; the cobalt blue ones, right out of her own cupboard, from a Dansk outlet years ago.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2017

The elegant young man spilled his daiquiri on his bottle-green velvet jacket.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole