Alice blue

American  

noun

1. a pale grayish-blue color.

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Etymology

Origin of Alice blue

1920–25, named after Alice Longworth (daughter of Theodore Roosevelt)

Example Sentences

When, however, a name is comparatively recent, use capitals, as in Alice blue, Taft roses, Burbank cactus.

From The Style Book of The Detroit News by News, The Detroit

The body was painted yellah and the trimmin's was in Alice blue and catsup red.

From Alex the Great by Brown, Arthur William

Any Mary with golden, yellow, tawny or tow-colored hair, and old blue, grey blue, Alice blue or plain blue eyes will come under Mrs. Spence's reflective observation.

From The Window-Gazer by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Once I went down town to buy me a pair of black stockings, and I got an Alice blue silk waist, instead.

From The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Barrett, Katharine Ellis

"There's Elizabethan ruff, and de Medici collar, and Queen Anne cottage, and Alice blue," I suggested.

From Tripping with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell