mazarine
Americannoun
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a deep, rich blue.
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a silver strainer fitting over a meat dish and used for draining the water from boiled fish.
Etymology
Origin of mazarine
1665–75; < French, perhaps named after Cardinal Mazarin
Example Sentences
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In January, White was in the midst of his most ambitious reintroduction yet: to return the mazarine blue to Britain.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020
When I picked him up, White was wearing a jumper the same hue as the male mazarine blue.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020
I planned to meet White again in the summer, to follow the release of his 2020 crop of mazarine blues on to a secret site in Lincolnshire.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020
He looked relieved once the mazarine blues had flown free.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020
Of a' the fair maidens on Rumbollow green There was nane sae fair as me, Wi' my kilted kirtle o' mazarine, And buckles as bright as the siller sheen, And my coatie o' cramosie, Balow!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander
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