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

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

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 Ernest Raymond

He then sees Cambridge blue as situated practically in the same event as the coat at that instant.

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

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 P. T. Ross

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 Philip Gilbert Hamerton

We are talking of someone’s definite sense-awareness of Cambridge blue as situated in some event of nature.

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

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

---