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blue-red

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[bloo-red] / ˈbluˈrɛd /

noun

  1. a color about midway between blue and red in the spectrum; purplish.


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More than four months after it entered the Persian Gulf, the blue-red ship is now en route to India.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

"A Gaussian state would look like a plain red circle, without any interesting blue-red patterns," explains PhD candidate Liam Bond.

From Science Daily May 24, 2024

Before the call, I did my hair and applied my signature lipstick: a bright, matte blue-red.

From Washington Post Jun. 23, 2020

So that if the color shifts from, let’s say a blue to a blue-red, and it shifts everything else, it’s still going to work value-wise.

From Slate Oct. 19, 2017

It was a fireball, an explosion of blue-red, and the heat of it singed the tips of his hair and scorched his eyes, so that both he and Mal had to cover their faces.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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