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steel blue

noun

  1. dark bluish gray.


steel blue

noun

    1. a dark bluish-grey colour
    2. ( as adjective )

      steel-blue eyes

“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of steel blue1

First recorded in 1810–20
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Example Sentences

Now here was a lover's meeting, not lacking the shy, downward glance of dark eyes as steel-blue eyes flashed frank admiration.

India looked straight at Jack out of the steel-blue eyes that were so like his own.

The towers of the Abbey stood out nobly against the steel-blue sky.

A small nunatak slanted like a steel-blue shadow on the side of a white peak to the south-west.

In the north-east was a patch of open sea and above it, round to the north, lowering banks of steel-blue cloud.

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