English edit

Etymology edit

olive +‎ sheen

Noun edit

olivesheen (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A dull grayish-yellow color.
    • 2000, Jennifer Atkinson, The Drowned City, page 27:
      [] looking out / on a Sargenty smear of pearl and dress silk, / olivesheen / and the vanishing stain of a passing car's taillights.

Adjective edit

olivesheen (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Of a dull grayish-yellow color.
    • 1994, Lance Olsen, Tonguing the Zeitgeist, page 11:
      [] a young man in an olivesheen business suit and derby sitting in the lotus position under a banyan tree.