moth-green

Updated: June 20, 2025

Here is the passage describing what the Count and his friends saw, when they discerned a city in the sky, and round it the tents of the moonsmen: The tents were of divers pale colours, some dove-grey, others saffron and moth-green, and those on the farther side, of the colour of pale violets, and all pitched in a vast circle whose centre was the moon.

John St. Loe Strachey - The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography