cerulean
[suh-roo-lee-uh n]
- deep blue; sky blue; azure.
- Heraldry. a sky-blue tincture, used especially on the Continent.
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Origin of cerulean
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On Monday, Nicole Richie debuted her latest Technicolor hairstyle—a side-swept Cerulean low bun—on Good Morning America.
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Or the cerulean borrowed from the tint of the southern indigo.
Man of Uz, and Other PoemsLydia Howard Sigourney
And out of these shone, shone on us, the cerulean and sapphire glory!
Let me know whether you intend to wear one of your cerulean shades.
Molly Brown's Freshman DaysNell Speed
So we went, all of us, back through vast woodland to cerulean water.
1492Mary Johnston
Blue, blue, as if the sky let fallA flower from its cerulean wall!
The Garden, You, and IMabel Osgood Wright
cerulean
- a deep blue colour; azure
- (as adjective)a cerulean sea
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Word Origin
C17: from Latin caeruleus, probably from caelum sky
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Word Origin and History for cerulean
adj.
1660s, with -an + Latin caeruleus "blue, dark blue, blue-green," perhaps dissimilated from caelulum, diminutive of caelum "heaven, sky," of uncertain origin (see celestial). The Latin word was applied by Roman authors to the sky, the Mediterranean, and occasionally to leaves or fields. As a noun, from 1756.
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