gentian blue
Britishnoun
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The wonderful greenness of the grass, the glowing masses of yellow, and the deep gentian blue of the lupine would rank with the coloring of McWhirter's "Tyrol in Springtime."
From Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway by Effie Price Gladding
She liked Tiedeman's flat: the big outer room, curtained with thick gentian blue and thin violet.
From Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair
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 Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Another guest room was done in gentian blue and white, with a little buff and rose-color in small things.
From The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe
Their lovely colours—vivid crimson or deep, gentian blue seemed incongruous with their ungainly form and ferocious expression.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
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