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beryl blue

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noun

  1. a light greenish blue.

Etymology

Origin of beryl blue

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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Delicate pink deepened to rose crimson; pale greens softened into the beryl blue of stupendous glaciers, vast frozen cataracts which flowed down deep and broad clefts almost to the water's edge.

From The Captain of the Kansas by Tracy, Louis

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