olivaster

From French olivastre (attested by 1575; compare modern French olivâtre). For more, see olive, -aster.

olivaster (comparative more olivaster, superlative most olivaster)

1. (archaic, uncommon) Of the color of the olive; tawny.
   • 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:

     Of colour, they are rather black than olivaster and that their arms and legs are chained with manilios and armlets of silver, brass, ivory and the like

• “olivaster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Voltaires, violaters