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sky-colour
[sky n.1]
A (blue) colour like that of the sky. Also as adj., = next.
1552Elyot, Cærulus & Cæruleus, blewe of colour lyke the skye in a clere wether, skie colour. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. xii. (1891) 50 b, Vpon her bodie she ware a doublet of skie colour sattin. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 71 For this cause some are red, others yellow, these greene, those skie-color, others gray, or blew. 1631Widdowes Nat. Philos. 24 It is of a greene, yellow, and a skye colour. a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 149 Within an hour..the sky-colour reached to the lower part of the liquor. 1771Encycl. Brit. II. 962/1 Dying of Leather... A pure sky colour. 1865Swinburne Chastelard i. ii. 39 They say men dying remember..Some garment or sky-colour. 1889Jefferies Field & Hedgerow 21 The innumerable other flowers and wings and sky-colours. |