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

Such a patch is an event where Cambridge blue is situated.

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

Consider a blue coat, a flannel coat of Cambridge blue belonging to some athlete.

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

So could you but see me now, as I write, you would behold a being clad in a swagger suit of Cambridge blue pyjamas.

From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by Ross, P. T.

How lovely she looked with her outside varnish and her internal coat of Cambridge blue!

From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert