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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blue duck

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

He wore an old blue shirt, open at the throat and belted into trousers of blue duck, and she noticed the fine symmetry of his spare figure.

From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss

Gordon was dressed in soil-stained garments of old blue duck, with a patch cut from a cotton flour-bag on one of them.

From The Greater Power by W. Herbert Dunton

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 Cyrus Cuneo

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