duck-egg
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of duck-egg
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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The dish was a study in circles: the meat pressed flat and dotted with pickled carrots, moons of sumac-dusted duck-egg aioli, microgreens, and blueberries.
From Salon ● May 19, 2024
Located in the state’s Southern Tier close to the Pennsylvania border, it offers vistas of farmland, dotted with several big clapboard houses painted a duck-egg blue.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
Salted duck-egg is kind of like the parmesan of the Far East; it’s a phenomenal thing.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2019
In only his second year at London Fashion Week, he got a publicity boost that must be the stuff of dreams - a 91-year-old in duck-egg blue on the front row.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2018
He was a saturnine sort of man, with a hooked nose, a skin like parchment, and a perfectly bald sugar-loaf head, surmounted at the top by a wen as large as a duck-egg.
From The Hand in the Dark by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees
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