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==In popular culture==

[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] 1387-14001387–1400 The Canterbury Tales [[The Friar's Tale]] has the Corrupt Summoner meeting a devil disguised as a Yeoman dressed in Lincoln Green

[[Sir Walter Scott]] in his 1820 novel ''[[Ivanhoe]]'' mentioned ''Lincoln green'' three times: in Chapter 7 ("One of these, a stout well-set yeoman, arrayed in Lincoln green, having twelve arrows stuck in his belt...."),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Walter |title=Ivanoe: A Romance |date=1845 |publisher=Bernhard Tauchnitz |location=Leipzig |page=69}}</ref> Chapter 15 ("...[I]f thou losest [the prize] thou shalt be stript of thy Lincoln green...."),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Walter |title=Ivanoe: A Romance |date=1845 |publisher=Bernhard Tauchnitz |location=Leipzig |page=135}}</ref> and Chapter 23 (...[O]ne hundred yards of Lincoln green to make doublets to thy men....").<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Walter |title=Ivanoe: A Romance |date=1845 |publisher=Bernhard Tauchnitz |location=Leipzig |page=314}}</ref>