Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bright green much used in Eastern decoration.
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Examples
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This time it looped over the top of her locker door, the fingers clutching a familiar pistachio-green cylinder.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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This time it looped over the top of her locker door, the fingers clutching a familiar pistachio-green cylinder.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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This time it looped over the top of her locker door, the fingers clutching a familiar pistachio-green cylinder.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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On the far shore, the pistachio-green hedges were trimmed into the forty-foot message “He Is Risen.”
Rapture Ready! Daniel Radosh 2008
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Ayodhya is a complete contrast to Chandigarh: four hundred miles to the southeast of Corbu's city, it is ancient, it is dirty, and it is full of temples, some of them very dilapidated, painted powder-blue, egg-yellow, or pistachio-green.
India: The Perils of Democracy Buruma, Ian 1997
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A few green stones are found in Brazil and these may be of an absinthe-green or of a pistachio-green tint.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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Under the gown, Toohey wore sleeping pyjamas of pistachio-green linen, crumpled.
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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In the pistachio-green nest of A M Naik, chairman & managing director, Larsen
The Times of India 2010
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In the pistachio-green nest of A M Naik, chairman & managing director, Larsen
The Times of India 2010
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Eberstadt grew up in a fancifully ornate Upper East Side apartment with pistachio-green velvet walls, ancient statuary and a gold Marilyn by Andy Warhol in the living room, as she reminisced in The New York Observer in 2007.
NYT > Home Page By CATHLEEN MEDWICK 2010
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