nile-water-green

Updated: July 6, 2025

We liked what we found we could get chops, potatoes, and parsnips; and without too much delay these were neatly served to us in a most remarkable room, ablaze with mural ornaments and decorations, upon which every imaginable pigment of the modern palette seemed to have been lavished, from a Nile-water-green dado to a scarlet and silver frieze.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)