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
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
She was on the tall side, slender, rather tanned: olive-brown of skin with a wonderful smoothness to it ...
From Time Magazine Archive
Similar to No. 211, but much darker; sooty brown or black above edged with olive-brown or olive-gray; breast and neck cinnamon, washed with brownish; flanks brown and white.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.
