olivaster
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French olivastre (attested by 1575; compare modern French olivâtre). For more, see olive, -aster.
Adjective[edit]
olivaster (comparative more olivaster, superlative most olivaster)
- (archaic, uncommon) 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
References[edit]
- “olivaster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.