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blue-red

American  
[bloo-red] / ˈbluˈrɛd /

noun

  1. a color about midway between blue and red in the spectrum; purplish.


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More than four months after it entered the Persian Gulf, the blue-red ship is now en route to India.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

"A Gaussian state would look like a plain red circle, without any interesting blue-red patterns," explains PhD candidate Liam Bond.

From Science Daily May 24, 2024

The reels pulse with blue-red police lights and dramatic music.

From Washington Post Nov. 7, 2022

So that if the color shifts from, let’s say a blue to a blue-red, and it shifts everything else, it’s still going to work value-wise.

From Slate Oct. 19, 2017

The windows still blinked with the blue-red flash of the dance, and the low bass thumped loud enough to drum out into the night air.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

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