olivaster

English

Etymology

Latin oliva (“olive”): compare French olivâtre.

Adjective

olivaster (comparative more olivaster, superlative most olivaster)

  1. Of the color of the olive; tawny.
    • 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
      Of colour, they are rather black than olivaster and that their arms and legs are chained with manilios and armlets of silver , brass , ivory and the like

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “olivaster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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