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

Above olive-brown; crest, wings and tail dull red edged with olive-brown; throat and region at base of bill gray; breast buffy, sometimes tinged with red; belly whiter.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.