mazarine
Americannoun
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a deep, rich blue.
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a silver strainer fitting over a meat dish and used for draining the water from boiled fish.
Etymology
Origin of mazarine
1665–75; < French, perhaps named after Cardinal Mazarin
Example Sentences
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Over the course of about five minutes, White released 72 mazarine blues, a small butterfly named after the striking colour used in 17th-century porcelain.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
When I picked him up, White was wearing a jumper the same hue as the male mazarine blue.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
Unlike other reintroductions in which he helped a surviving British species recover its former range, the mazarine blue had completely vanished from the UK.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
I planned to meet White again in the summer, to follow the release of his 2020 crop of mazarine blues on to a secret site in Lincolnshire.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
She wears a foul mob that does not cover her greasy black locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled; an old mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvas petticoat.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy
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