Brunswick green
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English
Etymology
Named after Brunswick (Braunschweig) in Germany.
Noun
Brunswick green (countable and uncountable, plural Brunswick greens)
- Any of various dark green pigments, usually from copper compounds.
- Hypernym: pigment
- Coordinate terms: (copper and arsenic) Paris green, Scheele's green; (chromium) viridian; (cobalt) cobalt green
- The dark green colour of any of these pigments.
- Synonym: English green
- Hypernym: green
- Coordinate term: see Appendix:Colors § Greens
- 1962 March, Brian Haresnape, “Design in 1961—a Retrospect”, in Modern Railways, page 192:
- The livery, standard Brunswick Green with greyish-white cab window recess and a continuous light green band along the bottom edge of the bodywork, is the most satisfactory use of green to date, [...].