mazarine
Americannoun
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a deep, rich blue.
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a silver strainer fitting over a meat dish and used for draining the water from boiled fish.
Etymology
Origin of mazarine
1665–75; < French, perhaps named after Cardinal Mazarin
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Unlike other reintroductions in which he helped a surviving British species recover its former range, the mazarine blue had completely vanished from the UK.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
When I picked him up, White was wearing a jumper the same hue as the male mazarine blue.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
He looked relieved once the mazarine blues had flown free.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
In January, White was in the midst of his most ambitious reintroduction yet: to return the mazarine blue to Britain.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
They looked and saw two velvet Marquees, one striped in broad bands of apple-green and mazarine blue, the other in pale rose and cream, which a party of attendants had just finished putting up.
From In Brief Authority by F. Anstey
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