blue duck

British  

noun

1. Also called: whio.  a mountain duck, Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos , of New Zealand having a mostly lead-blue plumage

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Example Sentences

And yet, here comes DeChambeau, a blue duck in a sea of vanilla.

From Golf Digest • Aug. 26, 2018

Sean, Josie, Peggy, come in for yeer tea, come in at wanst for the fresh bread and butter and the gorgeous blue duck egg what no one else in the lane have.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Then a clear voice came in through the window, and turning towards it she saw that a young lad clad in blue duck was singing as he drove his binder through the grain.

From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cuneo, Cyrus

He had a quiet brown face and very brown hands, and he had evidently been working, for he wore long boots, a coarse blue shirt, and blue duck overalls.

From A Prairie Courtship by Bindloss, Harold

Their blue duck clothing and bare brown arms appeared among the white and ocher tinting of the grass that seemed charged with brightness, and the sounds of their activity came up to her.

From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold