Instead of the walls whispering of emerald green, claret and sky blue, they now shout luxury.

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He holds a silver tin of emerald-green spinach that could also be a pot of money.

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Silva, a pony-tailed woman with nails painted emerald green, made a small bag of brown and black cloth squares to hold the monkey, which is still too young to walk.

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But the Geiranger-Trollstigen Route offers 106km of raw Norwegian nature, with an awe-inspiring collection of hairpin bends, glaciated valleys and emerald green fjords running north to south.

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In addition to their daily City Bike Tour, this environmentally-friendly company offers a seasonal 15-mile autumn foliage tour along the Emerald Necklace, a network of parks and green spaces southwest of the city centre.

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For the luxury segment, DuPont developed a bold bronze and jewel-like green, the latter of which happens to be similar to the emerald color that Pantone, another paint company, recently unveiled as its color of the year for 2013.

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Florence Welch was all covered up in a fully beaded emerald green gown with monochromatic spikes on the sleeves custom made for her by Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy.

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