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sky-coloured, a. [sky n.1] Of the (blue) colour of the sky.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxxvi. 160 b, The tulbant of the merchant must be skie coloured. 1614Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue iv. 59 Her Robe, Sky-colour'd Silk, with curious Caul Of golden Twist. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxviii. (1713) 251 The Figure thereof was..drawn with Lines of a Sky-coloured blew. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 7) II. 189 They wore a Sky-coloured Habit after the Manner of the Hermits. 1827Griffith tr. Cuvier V. 214 The Sky-coloured Rat of Pennant. |