olive-branched
English
Adjective
olive-branched (comparative more olive-branched, superlative most olive-branched)
- Adorned with one or more olive branches.
- 1971, The Catholic Charities Review - Volumes 55-56, page 8:
- Indeed, in the 1960's, Blacks and other minorities extended, by and large, the olive-branched claw of the Eagle, our national symbol.
- 1978, Laddie Marshack, A crowd of lovers, page 114:
- Members of San Francisco's considerable French colony were at tables flanked by the French tricolor and the Stars and Stripes, with the olive-branched symbol of the UN in the center.
- 2013, Lynny Harris, Midbar III, page 245:
- Orange trees and apricot trees huddled amid the gray-silver leaves of gnarled olive-branched trees.
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