sage green

grayish to yellowish green.

Origin of sage green

First recorded in 1800–10

sage-green, adjective

She was dressed in a gown of an indeterminate shade between drab and sage-green, which did its best to annul her.

The Summons |A.E.W. Mason
She said with a smile, “The sage-green dress can be made quite useful; but I rather despair of the magenta.”

The School Queens |L. T. Meade
He had attended his last surgery case and the door of the "shop," with its sage-green windows, had been locked for the night.

The Green Rust |Edgar Wallace
In colour he was a sage-green, his limbs were round and had the appearance of geranium stalks.

The Coming of the Fairies |Arthur Conan Doyle

The roar of a waterfall came to her ears, and afar on the sage-green carpet of the lower mesa a horseman was galloping swiftly.

Cavanagh: Forest Ranger |Hamlin Garland