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Meanings of olive-drab in English

Of a light brownish green color.

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Examples for "drab"
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Will I see the familiar, drab reality of the original Gerald Livingstone?
Existence
2
The elevators were along a far wall, but their doors were drab.
Body work
3
The sixth-form library-cum-common room of a Stockport public school is timelessly drab.
The Guardian
4
Thanks for adding a ray of sunshine to those otherwise drab days.
Secret weapon spouse
5
The room was drab, disgusting; he wanted to get out of it.
Pygmalion's Spectacles
Usage of olive-drab in English
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He held out a heavy machete in an olive-drab sheath to Murphy.
Blood rites
2
In cold weather olive-drab woolen gloves are worn; at other times, no gloves.
Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry of ...
3
He watched the irregular files of men in olive-drab shambling by.
Three Soldiers
4
They're rather more a gray olive-drab, according to the single image they relayed.
Fire With Fire
5
When coats are not worn with the service uniform olive-drab shirts are prescribed.
Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry of ...
6
You wouldn't think olive-drab could stick out the way it does.
Cheerful—By Request
7
He remembered how the olive-drab trousers had dangled, empty from the man's chair.
Three Soldiers
8
Comes from the olive-drab 'uniform' paint used for military equipment.
The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000
9
Now and then the rustling stopped ahead of him, and the olive-drab patches were still.
Three Soldiers
10
When he was all dressed in his olive-drab she still could not let him go.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
11
He became an olive-drab unit in an olive-drab village.
Cheerful—By Request
12
But he still had that darn olive-drab T-shirt on.
Once bitten, twice dead
13
He took an olive-drab duffel bag from his shoulder and set it on the ground.
Dead beat
14
I didn't count the ATV or the olive-drab dirt bike as part of the fifteen.
Beyond exile: day by day armageddon
15
Fuselli wore stained olive-drab breeches and badly rolled puttees; his shirt was open at the neck.
Three Soldiers
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In front of him his eyes followed other patches of olive-drab moving among the tree trunks.
Three Soldiers