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noun

the color of the unclouded sky in daytime; azure.

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Origin of sky blue

First recorded in 1720–30

OTHER WORDS FROM sky blue

sky-blue, adjective

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How to use sky blue in a sentence

Both play within a relatively constrained color palette rich in sepia yellow, with strategic daubs of sky blue and red.
You Can Indeed Judge a Book By Its Cover|Brian Gresko|November 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It is a practical necessity with political support that transcends party lines, even in sky-blue California.
Will More Democrats Follow Rahm Emanuel in Chicago and Take On Unions?|John Avlon|September 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST
In keeping with the period, Mason wrote the novel by hand, in an oversize hand-stitched leatherbound notebook bound in sky blue.
Richard Mason on New Novel History of a Pleasure Seeker|Jane Ciabattari|February 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The Republican Party seems to have been brained by a heavy cloud followed by an equally heavy sky-blue shape.
The Sky Is Falling|Stanley Crouch|February 5, 2009|DAILY BEAST

Malarial parasites stain characteristically: the cytoplasm, sky-blue; the chromatin, reddish-purple.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
She was enveloped in a sky-blue satin gown, or rather, sort of blouse, ornamented all round with two rows of rich black blond.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
The exterior walls are made of imitation malachite; the roof is a sky-blue cupola spangled with gilt stars.
Ways of War and Peace|Delia Austrian
They all looked downward and found a sky-blue rabbit had stuck his head out of a burrow in the ground.
The Tin Woodman of Oz|L. Frank Baum
Thus with a Dun hackle, use yellow silk; a black hackle, sky blue; a brown or red hackle, red or dark orange do.
The Teesdale Angler|R Lakeland

British Dictionary definitions for sky blue

sky blue

noun

a light or pale blue colour
(as adjective)a sky-blue jumper

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sky blue

Origin of sky blue

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