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

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

When we look at the coat, we do not in general say, There is a patch of Cambridge blue; what naturally occurs to us is, There is a coat.

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

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

From A Woman-Hater by Reade, Charles

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