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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Example Sentences

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Cambridge blue

I'd rather have had a Cambridge blue myself.

From The Limit by Ada Leverson

Now all was merged in a general stagnation of Cambridge blue and coffee colour.

From Coquette by Frank Swinnerton

Examples of sense-objects are a particular sort of colour, say Cambridge blue, or a particular sort of sound, or a particular sort of smell, or a particular sort of feeling.

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

At this moment the door opened, and Fanny Dover glittered on the threshold in Cambridge blue.

From A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade

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 Alfred North Whitehead