A light blue colour; cloth or garments of this colour.

a light-blue or sky-blue colour.

A pale blue colour.

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Originally: the rich blue colour of smalt. Now chiefly: a soft pale shade of blue.

(a) adj. of a light shade of blue, or (formerly) greenish-blue, resembling that adopted as the colours of Eton College; (b) n. a light shade of…

(a) adj. that is of a very pale blue colour; (b) n. this colour.

the purple-blue colour of the periwinkle flower.

A pale shade of blue, adopted as the colour of Cambridge University.

(a) n. a pale shade of blue; (b) adj. of this colour.

A pale shade of blue or greenish-blue.

The colour of the egg of a duck; used attributively. Frequently duck-egg blue, duck's egg blue.

Chiefly U.S. A shade of light blue resembling the colour of periwinkle flowers. Cf. periwinkle, n.1 3b.

An opal-blue colour.

A purple-blue colour like that of the periwinkle flower (sense 1). Cf. pervenche, n. 2.

= sense 2 (cf. periwinkle blue n. at periwinkle, n.1 compounds 2).

attributive, as harebell blue.

a light shade of blue, the colour of the uniform of the French Army during and after the war of 1914–18; such a uniform; also as adj.

This shade of blue; a garment, etc., in this colour.

(a) n. a light blue colour like that of some gem-quality zircon; a pigment of this colour (b) adj. of this light-blue colour.

a light or medium blue colour.