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gentian blue

noun

    1. a purplish-blue colour
    2. ( as adjective )

      gentian-blue shoes

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Around her neck was the Necklace she wore in all the ages, showing greenish in a dusk of gentian blue.

Gentian-blue is a useful word, bringing to mind the piercingly powerful hue of the Gentianella.

Another guest room was done in gentian blue and white, with a little buff and rose-color in small things.

"For other things, also," she said, letting her eyes of gentian-blue rest on the young man.

As Theodore sped through the Copper-Market in the morning, he looked up; the sky was of the deepest gentian blue.

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