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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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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 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

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 Gladding, Effie Price

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)

His brows are very stern and level; and his eyes, deep-set beneath them, of that gentian blue which makes one 90 think of Alpine heights.

From The Mistress of Shenstone by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)

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