gentian blue

noun

1. a purplish-blue colour
2. (as adjective)gentian-blue shoes

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Examples from the Web for gentian blue

Historical Examples

His brown face and his gentian-blue eyes were high and noble.
The King of Ireland's Son
Padraic Colum
He has close-cropped, bronzy brown hair and gentian-blue eyes and his skin is burned to a glowing copper luster.
Jane Journeys On
Ruth Comfort Mitchell
He was a spare, small, elderly man, with a white face and gentian-blue eyes and a mouth that could make up as anything.
Mystery at Geneva
Rose Macaulay
Almost simultaneously there burst into the room a small trim girl with smooth fair hair and gentian-blue eyes.
The Secret of Casa Grande
Helen Randolph
Mollie wore her heavy dark-blue traveling coat, with a gentian-blue scarf tied about her throat.
The Automobile Girls at Chicago
Laura Dent Crane

gentian blue

Examples from the Web for gentian blue

Historical Examples

His brown face and his gentian-blue eyes were high and noble.

He has close-cropped, bronzy brown hair and gentian-blue eyes and his skin is burned to a glowing copper luster.

He was a spare, small, elderly man, with a white face and gentian-blue eyes and a mouth that could make up as anything.

Almost simultaneously there burst into the room a small trim girl with smooth fair hair and gentian-blue eyes.

Mollie wore her heavy dark-blue traveling coat, with a gentian-blue scarf tied about her throat.