half-blue

British  

noun

1. (at Oxford and Cambridge universities) a sportsman who substitutes for a full blue or who represents the university in a minor sport Compare blue

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Example Sentences

He shivered, and half turned towards the door across the promenade; but the wavelets, flying by in their half-blue, half-grey ripples, fascinated him, and he lingered.

From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by Jarvis, W. H. P. (William Henry Pope)

Later the moon rose, in the half-blue, half-dusk, and presently shone on a white mist-lake, over the low land through which we were then passing.

From A Northern Countryside by Richards, Rosalind