steel blue

noun

1. dark bluish gray.

steel blue

noun

1. 1. a dark bluish-grey colour
   2. ( as adjective )

      steel-blue eyes

Word History and Origins

Origin of steel blue¹

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

Now here was a lover's meeting, not lacking the shy, downward glance of dark eyes as steel-blue eyes flashed frank admiration.

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India looked straight at Jack out of the steel-blue eyes that were so like his own.

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The towers of the Abbey stood out nobly against the steel-blue sky.

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A small nunatak slanted like a steel-blue shadow on the side of a white peak to the south-west.

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In the north-east was a patch of open sea and above it, round to the north, lowering banks of steel-blue cloud.

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