Cambridge blue

British  

noun

1. 1. a lightish blue colour

   2. ( as adjective )

      a Cambridge-blue scarf

2. a person who has been awarded a blue from Cambridge University

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Cambridge blue

I'd rather have had a Cambridge blue myself.

From The Limit by Leverson, Ada

This difference would be important if he were looking at a star whose colour was Cambridge blue.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

And now, awaiting his arrival, I lolled in my deck-chair, clothed in my Cambridge blue sleeping-suit, and Doe lay with his pink stripes peeping from beneath the grey embroidered kimono.

From Tell England A Study in a Generation by Raymond, Ernest

We are talking of someone’s definite sense-awareness of Cambridge blue as situated in some event of nature.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

He then sees Cambridge blue as situated practically in the same event as the coat at that instant.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North