cornflower
Americannoun
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cornflowers
plural
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Also called bachelor's-button, bluebottle. a European composite plant, Centaurea cyanus, growing in grainfields, having blue to white flower heads, often cultivated as an ornamental.
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Also called cornflower blue. a deep, vivid blue.
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Of course, in the fashion world, an item of clothing can't just be blue, so Laws says he thinks cornflower and cobalt blue will make a particular appearance across shows.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024
The color palette recalled a rainy day on the highlands: moss, brown, slate gray and maroon, cornflower blue, mustard.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
A few years ago, Buchweitz tried to develop the cornflower blue as a colorant for the food industry, but it didn’t pan out.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 14, 2023
Or the indigo lines undulating gently down her arm on a cornflower background look like water.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2022
“I see midnight blue, persian blue, cornflower, powder, and sapphire. And whites? There’s porcelain, daisy, and pearl.”
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Some of my favorites include violas, zinnias, rose petals, cornflowers and flowering herbs.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
The chamomile, cornflowers, ferns, irises and rustling grasses of the fields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
Burton's intimate view of Tutankhamun's outer coffin focuses on the garland of cornflowers and olives leaves adorning the young king's forehead.
From BBC ● May 10, 2022
Anthocyanins can change color depending on the acidity of a solution, so Willstätter proposed that roses had a different hue because the pH in their petals was lower than in cornflowers.
From Science Magazine ● May 2, 2019
His eyes were clear, of the pale sweet blue of cornflowers, his thick mouth hung open, drooling a little.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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