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Color:
Drab Green


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Colors with the same hue:
Pine green
Sap green
Maximum Green
Subdued Olive
Drab Olive
New Leaf Green
Cyber Green
Chartreuse
Mango green
Kiwi
Olivine
French lime
Celery
Subtle Green
Tea
Similar colors:
Swamp
Dull Green
Basil Green
Bamboo Green
Moss green
Machinery Green
Basil
Puke Green
Dull Olive
Fern green
Muddy Green
Faded Green
May green
Bud green
Spinach
Dark olive green
Words evoked by this color:
bamboo,  damp,  secluded,  dampened,  morrison,  bayou,  moa,  slough,  quag,  bog,  mossy,  moss,  mossbauer,  humid,  fungal,  fungus,  motte,  murry,  middle,  backwater,  swamp,  gob,  mulligan,  lichen,  slowly,  decrepit,  unkempt,  wandered,  wander,  redneck,  hidden,  cuk,  doppelganger,  foss,  louche,  lingering,  blurred,  smuggle,  puffing,  ailanthus,  tunisian,  pyramidal,  alexandria,  minaret,  sphinx,  terrarium,  tolkien,  glen,  glade,  shamrock
Literary analysis:
In literature, the term “drab green” is often chosen to evoke a sense of muted, almost unsettling atmosphere. For instance, in one example the color is used to illuminate a gloomy church, with gas-jets arranged in coronæ painted a drab green, which contributes to an overall feeling of decay and abandonment [1]. In another instance, a character’s unexpected drab green kilt is noted as being uncharacteristic, subtly hinting at layers of personality and possibly suggesting a hidden or unconventional nature [2].
  1. The huge, ugly church was lit with rows of gas-jets, arranged in coronæ painted a drab green.
    — from When It Was Dark: The Story of a Great Conspiracy by Guy Thorne
  2. "What—" Then he noticed the drab green kilt, totally uncharacteristic of her.
    — from A Matter of Honor: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson

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