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peacock blue

noun

  1. a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.


peacock blue

noun

    1. a greenish-blue colour
    2. ( as adjective )

      a peacock-blue car

“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of peacock blue1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

The wall behind her is made of cardboard and painted a peacock blue, and it functions in spatial terms as a studio backdrop.

He wore a nightcap with a tassel, and for days never left his room, occasionally appearing in a faded peacock-blue dressing-gown.

In one corner was a four-poster bed with the faded peacock-blue dressing-gown pendent below a tousled nightcap of gray silk.

Now I am become a mysterious peacock-blue, for lately I have felt terribly old.

Her bodice was of peacock blue and the whole effect was quite dazzling, and strange to say very becoming.

Another effect may be produced by using the black outline alone under a peacock blue or turquoise glaze.

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