| 单词 | horizon-blue |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorizon-blue horizon-blue n. [French bleu horizon] 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. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > light blue watchetc1405 vessey colour1562 fesse1587 Venice blue1598 Turkey colour1661 powder blue1752 Eton blue1851 ice-blue1851 periwinkle blue1852 Cambridge blue1858 baby blue1861 starch blue1875 duck's egg1876 pervenche1876 opal blue1881 periwinkle1895 pervenche blue1898 harebell blue1909 horizon-blue1919 Nattier blue1923 zircon blue1928 Mary blue1943 1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast xiv. 248 There was very little khaki or horizon-blue about. 1926 ‘C. Barry’ Detective's Holiday i. 9 ‘It is thus,’ the man in horizon blue began... ‘This morning..a fisherman..discovered..the body of a man who had been murdered.’ 1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xvii. 136 Monsieur Saint-Aulaire found himself over-stocked with horizon-blue material, the Chamber having agreed that French soldiers and officers should wear khaki in the future. 1954 W. Faulkner Fable (1955) 14 The whole ring of..faces was stained with a faint,..reflected horizon-blue. 1972 J. Williams Home Fronts viii. 137 Little girls decked out in ‘horizon-blue’ policemen's caps and cloaks. < as lemmas |
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