Antwerp blue

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noun

any of several iron-blue pigments, usually containing a considerable amount of extender.

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Origin of Antwerp blue

First recorded in 1825–35

Words nearby Antwerp blue

ant-thrush, ANTU, Antung, antwackie, Antwerp, Antwerp blue, antwren, Anu, Anubis, anucleate, anucleolate

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Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
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Yeah, the “Giant man-puppy” that is Gronkowski won't hold a sexual candle to the blue-eyed dreamboat.
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GOP leaders refused; they saw that Duke was pulling blue-collar Democrats to the party.
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It denotes the person that puts on the badge, puts on the blue uniform, and goes into the streets to put their life at risk.
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They looked up into the blue sky as the helicopters flew over in a lost man formation.
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In pursuing his alchemical researches, he discovered Prussian blue, and the animal oil which bears his name.
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Mary is fair as the morning dew— Cheeks of roses and ribbons of blue!
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His nose was hooked and rather large, his eyes were blue, bright as steel, and set a trifle wide.
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He was in early life a shipcarpenter, and subsequently American consul at Antwerp.
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The most promising of the methods which have been devised are cryoscopy, the methylene-blue test, and the phloridzin test.
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