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gentian blue

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noun

    1. a purplish-blue colour

    2. ( as adjective )

      gentian-blue shoes

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Their lovely colours—vivid crimson or deep, gentian blue seemed incongruous with their ungainly form and ferocious expression.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

She liked Tiedeman's flat: the big outer room, curtained with thick gentian blue and thin violet.

From Mary Olivier: a Life by Sinclair, May

The valance was of chintz in gentian blue and white.

From The House in Good Taste by Wolfe, Elsie de

She changed her mind hurriedly twenty times, but was careful to select the most becoming street-frock she possessed, a gentian blue cloth trimmed with sable.

From Senator North by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Their features are regular; eyes black or deep gentian blue; complexion pale; movements and attitudes impressed with a stamp of rare distinction.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

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