Olive (color)
Olive is a dark yellowish green color typically seen on green olives. As a color word in the English language, it appears in late Middle English. Shaded toward green, it becomes olive drab.
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Famous quotes containing the word olive:
“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 23:10,11.