a. Obs. rare. [ad. L. venet-us.] Venet color, a greyish-blue color.
c. 1425. MS. Digby 233, fol. 224/2. Loke þat … þe mennes clothing by coloured with venet colour þat is water coloure.
a. 1661. Holyday, Juvenal, 226. Vegetius … says that ships, which are sent out as spies, should have their sails of the venet colour, that they may not be discerned by the enemies.
