ultramarine
Americanadjective
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of the color ultramarine.
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beyond the sea.
noun
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a blue pigment consisting of powdered lapis lazuli.
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a similar artificial blue pigment.
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any of various other pigments.
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a deep-blue color.
noun
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a blue pigment consisting of sodium and aluminium silicates and some sodium sulphide, obtained by powdering natural lapis lazuli or made synthetically: used in paints, printing ink, plastics, etc
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a vivid blue colour
adjective
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of the colour ultramarine
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from across the seas
Etymology
Origin of ultramarine
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin ultrāmarīnus, equivalent to Latin ultrā ultra- + marīnus marine
Example Sentences
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The etching is done with a mixture of ultramarine blue and soft black ink, which creates the blue-black color of the trunk and leaf outlines.
From Seattle Times
The blue is artificial ultramarine combined with titanium white.
From Washington Post
The popular and readily available variety ‘Victoria Blue’ is a compact grower that blooms prolifically up until frost with lavenderlike wands of deep ultramarine blooms.
From Seattle Times
As we talked, the greens blued into ultramarine or yellowed into chartreuse.
From New York Times
And she hypothesizes that Titian, millennia later, might have been able to use so much ultramarine blue because his location in Venice put him in proximity to the first load that came off the ship.
From Washington Post
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