is green because her mother drank a green elixir before her birth. A man offered Elphaba’s mother the elixir, according to the song “No One Mourns The Wicked” from the Broadway musical ...
Chartreuse -- a color better known these days as "Brat Green" -- gets its name not from a herb or a flower as one might expect, but from an alcoholic beverage. More accurately, chartreuse gets its ...