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Lincoln green

noun

  1. an olive-green color.
  2. British Obsolete. a forester's outfit, perhaps of bright green:

    clad in Lincoln green.



Lincoln green

noun

    1. a yellowish-green or brownish-green colour
    2. ( as adjective )

      a Lincoln-green suit

  1. a cloth of this colour
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Lincoln green1

1500–10; so called from the color of a fabric originally made in Lincoln, England
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Lincoln green1

C16: so named after a green fabric formerly made at Lincoln , England
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Example Sentences

The family's solicitors, Ison Harrison, said Ms Berihew was concerned about one of her children falling from the window after becoming aware of the death of six-year-old Liam Shackleton, who fell from the window of a neighbouring tower block at Lincoln Green, in 2011.

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Officers also recovered Mr Barrott's silver Toyota Avensis from the Lincoln Green area of Leeds shortly before 19:00 BST on Tuesday.

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The Shearbridge and University area of Bradford recorded 37 cases in a week while in Leeds, where the rate has also risen steeply, there were 24 in the Lincoln Green and St James area.

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O’Neil Wildgoose, 43, said he, his wife and their dog spent two days on the roof of their home in Freeport’s Lincoln Green neighborhood, ravaged by a 12-foot storm surge that “came like a tsunami.”

This man was as notable as the sycamore, far he stood or lay seven feet without his shoes, and he was dressed in nothing but a kind of kilt made of Lincoln green worsted.

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