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Concur with former nurse about main colour?
Answer for the clue "Concur with former nurse about main colour? ", 9 letters:
sea-green
Word definitions for sea-green in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
as a color, 1590s, from sea + green (adj.). As an adjective from c.1600.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Lais floated down the stairs towards him, a vision in sea-green silk crepe de Chine. ▪ Many sea-green incorruptibles will be there, but might this commercial fair be the first harbinger of green over-kill? ▪ Peach was huddled ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of the color of the sea; bluish green
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
colorful \colorful\ adj. having striking color. Opposite of colorless . Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot ; deep, rich ; flaming ; fluorescent, glowing ; prismatic ; psychedelic ; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled ] Syn: colourful. ...
Usage examples of sea-green.
Did some time-traveler rearrange Apollo 8 events so the photo of the gibbous Earth and sea-green Moon never got taken?
Crowds were inimicable to private conversation, and besides, they blocked his view of her form, so tantalisingly outlined by the elegantly simple, sea-green gown she wore.
I will wear the tunica of forest-green silk, and over it the sea-green pallium.
A sea-green bowl, in which Dorhaniya had once kept dried rose petals, filled now with the precious selon beans Eris had given him, a blackwood bow, and a richly decorated sword, part of the spoils of Fin Panir, which no Marshal would carry because of its origin and decoration.
Francesca, superb in a gown of sea-green silk, drew all eyes, not just because of her lush curves but more so because of the radiant happiness glowing in her eyes, coloring her voice, implicit in her every gesture.
Laconia, the fiery red, and the white Phrygian stone, intersected with veins of a sea-green hue: the mosaic paintings of the dome and sides represented the glories of the African and Italian triumphs.
He did not even mind the hellish, octopus-headed bulk of great Tulu, fashioned of unknown metal and leering with fishy, sea-green eyes, which squatted in the blackness above him on its monstrously hieroglyphed pedestal.
A sea-green bowl, in which Dorhaniya had once kept dried rose petals, filled now with the precious selon beans Eris had given him, a blackwood bow, and a richly decorated sword, part of the spoils of Fin Panir, which no Marshal would carry because of its origin and decoration.
One-Eyed Wong was dressed as the majordomo of a great house, and Fat Fu was attired as a noble nurse, and Master Li and I dazzled the eyes in tunics of sea-green silk that were secured by silver girdles with borders of jade.
A herd of cattle passed along in the dell below, untended, towards their watering place--the grass was rustled by a gentle breeze, and the olive-woods, mellowed into soft masses by the moonlight, contrasted their sea-green with the dark chestnut foliage.
Here and there, in grooved depressions among the snowy desolations of the upper altitudes, one glimpsed the extremity of a glacier, with its sea-green and honeycombed battlements of ice.
On the left, Robespierre in immaculate sea-green coat and carefully gauffered linen was quietly polishing the nails of his right hand against the palm of his left.
Its walls were studded with the fist-sized, sea-green gems which Shandril recognized as the fabled beljurils, for at odd intervals one or more would give forth a silent burst of light just as the storytellers had said.
Over that was drawn a coverlet of deeper gold on which was worked a complicated design in sea-green thread, looped here and there to draw a pearl into line.
He hadn't minded the long journeys between holds, the teaching, even the focus of his thoughts - Kasia's beautiful sea-green eyes, her laugh, her body, the peace she had given him.