olivesheen means of a dull grayish-yellow color. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.
Etymology
From olive + sheen.
adj
- Of a dull grayish-yellow color.“[…] a young man in an olivesheen business suit and derby sitting in the lotus position under a banyan tree.”
noun
- A dull grayish-yellow color.“[…] looking out / on a Sargenty smear of pearl and dress silk, / olivesheen / and the vanishing stain of a passing car's taillights.”