fairy green

American  

noun

1. a medium yellow-green color.

---

Example Sentences

With a soúth-wésterly wínd blústering, with a tide rolls    reels Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas    in; seen Únderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Bridges, Robert Seymour

Streaks fairy green are traced on backward ways, Through vacant regions lightly overleapt, With pauses, where in soft pathetic haze Are phantoms of the joys that died unwept.

From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)

All the earth is fairy green, And the sunlight filmy gold, Full of ecstasies unseen, Full of mysteries untold.

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss

Indeed this lady was clad all in the fairy green, and her eyes were as blue as the sky above her head, and the long yellow locks on her shoulders were shining like the sun.

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

Billy looked once more all about his story-book home and then his eyes strayed away to Petersen's Woods, fairy green and already full of deep shadowed aisles, full of fretted beauty and solemnity.

From Green Valley by Reynolds, Katharine