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
The daughters had inherited her dark hair, olive-brown skin, and black-brown eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the olive-brown twilight, Wangenstein Alleys look like Spanish moss forests, with double rubber tubes descending from bottles high above each bed to the patients' noses and wounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quills and tail dark-brown, margined with deep-yellowish; the two lateral tail-feathers tipt with dirty white; plumage above olive-brown; front and crown of the head dark brownish-yellow; bill black; legs brownish, inner-toe very deeply cleft.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William
