olivesheen

English

Etymology

From olive +‎ sheen.

Noun

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

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.