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Definition of Spinachy
1. spinach [adj] - See also: spinach
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinachy
Literary usage of Spinachy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rural Essays by Andrew Jackson Downing (1869)
"... rickety and dejected; new wooden houses, distressingly lean in their proportions,
chalky white in their clapboards, and spinachy green in their blinds. ..."
2. Rural Essays by Andrew Jackson Downing (1857)
"... rickety and dejected; new wooden houses, distressingly lean in their proportions,
chalky white in their clapboards, and spinachy green in their blinds. ..."
3. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal (1826)
"... the stools, which were green and " spinachy," assumed a healthier, yellow
colour; and the patient, gradually losing the coma, recovered entirely. ..."
4. Landscape Gardening by Andrew Jackson Downing, Frank Albert Waugh (1921)
"... rickety and dejected; new wooden houses, distressingly lean in their proportions,
chalky white in their clapboards, and spinachy green in their blinds. ..."
5. Landscape Gardening by Andrew Jackson Downing, Frank Albert Waugh (1921)
"... rickety and dejected; new wooden houses, distressingly lean in their proportions,
chalky white in their clapboards, and spinachy green in their blinds. ..."
6. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1825)
"His stools became tinged with a bile of a yellowish hue, and in a great degree
to have lost their well marked hydrocephalic or spinachy appearance; ..."
7. Southern Lights and Shadows: Being Brief Notes of Three Years' Experience of by Frank Fowler (1859)
"The old women of the village frequent this wild spot at times in order to gather '
lava bread,' an alga of a spinachy hue and taste, which they make into ..."
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