sap green

noun

a green pigment obtained from the juice of buckthorn berries, used chiefly in dyes for wood, paper, and textiles.

First recorded in 1570–80

The house is full of “sickness and strain,” which Coral escapes by walking through the “dark craw” of the nearby Sap Green Forest.

Then comes a sap-green lackey, stiff as a ramrod, with a package under his arm.

Sap green (10 or 12 gr., rubbed up with a teaspoonful of hot water) is also used for the same purpose.

The foreign is uniformly adulterated with chalk or starch, and coloured with sap green.

Then, one morning, Will woke up to find that the ocean had changed overnight from a warm sap-green to a muddy clay-color.

When mixed with lime and evaporated to dryness, it forms the color called sap-green.

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