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

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 Whitehead, Alfred North

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 Whitehead, Alfred North

She was simply but exquisitely dressed, with unostentatious touches of Cambridge blue and a picture hat that really was a picture.

From Mr. Justice Raffles by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

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

From A Woman-Hater by Reade, Charles

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.