olive-brown
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Females are olive-brown and males chalky blue, except during breeding season, when the males gleam a flamboyant blue.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
He first gained wide recognition with the 1961 painting “The American Dream, I,” which depicts four stars within circles and other geometric forms and is set against an olive-brown background.
From Washington Post ● May 23, 2018
She was on the tall side, slender, rather tanned: olive-brown of skin with a wonderful smoothness to it ...
From Time Magazine Archive
The daughters had inherited her dark hair, olive-brown skin, and black-brown eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Crown dark chestnut; line over eye, throat, and breast yellow; breast and sides with reddish brown streaks; belly much paler, often grayish washed with yellow; back olive-brown; rump brighter.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman
