Topic: COLOURS
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| Date: | 1100-1200 |
| Language: | Old French |
| Origin: | Latin oliva, from Greek elaia |
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ol‧ive
1 [countable] a small, bitter, egg-shaped black or green fruit, used as food and for making oil
2 [countable] also olive treeHBP a tree that produces olives, grown especially in Mediterranean countries :
3DCBCC [uncountable] also olive green a deep yellowish green colour
4 skin colour that is typical of people from countries such as Greece, Italy, or Turkey
olive skin/complexion
DCBCC5 to do or say something in order to show that you want to end an argument with someone
extend/offer/hold out etc an olive branch (to somebody)
—olive adjective: 
an olive sweatshirt
an olive sweatshirt