green-dressed

Updated: May 13, 2025

But our friend with Scotch foresight and economy, has told us to make the servants of the Company do thein work. 'Hands off, we say to the ticket-porters; and walking up the steps we round a pillar, and smartly tapping on the shoulder one of the green-dressed gentlemen lurking there, we indicate to him the locality of our port-manteau.

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - The Recreations of a Country Parson