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

And now, awaiting his arrival, I lolled in my deck-chair, clothed in my Cambridge blue sleeping-suit, and Doe lay with his pink stripes peeping from beneath the grey embroidered kimono.

From Tell England A Study in a Generation by Raymond, Ernest

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.

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

From Coquette by Swinnerton, Frank

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