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

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

From Coquette by Swinnerton, Frank

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.

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)

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