Prussian bluen.adj.

Brit.

/ˌprʌʃn ˈbluː/, U.S.

/ˌprəʃ(ə)n ˈblu/

Forms: 1700s– Prussian blue, 1800s Prooshan blue, 1800s Prosshun blue. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Prussian adj., blue n.

Etymology: < Prussian adj. + blue n., so called from being accidentally discovered by Diesbach, a colour-maker in Berlin (then capital of Prussia), in 1704, and announced as a pigment in Miscellanea berolinensia (1710) 1 iii. 377).Several chemical compounds similar to or obtained from Prussian blue, and some related terms, derive their names from this compound: see e.g. Prussian acid n., Prussian alkali n. at Prussian n. and adj. Compounds, etc., and also prussiate n., prussic adj., prussous adj. In use in sense A. 2 probably a variant or intensifier of true blue (see true blue adj. 1), perhaps with reference to the strong colour of the pigment. Use of the term in Dickens (in quot. 1837 at sense A. 2) is generally held to be a play on the deep colour of the pigment and the popularity of the Prussians after the Battle of Waterloo. However, quot. 1778 at sense A. 2 shows that use of the term in this sense antedates Waterloo. The following quot. offers an alternative, although perhaps erroneous, explanation of Dickens's use:1899 Westm. Gaz. 30 Aug. 3/2 We have no doubt that the true solution [of ‘my Prooshan blue’] is simple enough. The expression is a reference to a public-house sign common enough in the Pickwickian age, and often pictorially presented, namely, the portrait of the ‘King of Prussia’ in a blue uniform.

A. n.

1. Any of several deep blue pigments consisting chiefly of ferric ferrocyanide, Fe³⁺₄[Fe²⁺(CN)₆]₃, used in painting and dyeing; the colour of such a pigment.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > blue pigment > specific

azurec1374

lapis lazulia1425

litmusc1503

verditer1505

florey1527

bice1548

smalt1558

smalts1591

smalt1598

ultramarine1598

litmus blue1612

verditer1665

ultramarine blue (or colour)1686

blue sublimate1700

Prussian blue1724

terre bleue1728

starch blue1742

king's blue1778

verditel1778

Antwerp brown1787

Berlin blue1794

lacmus1794

Antwerp blue1795

French blue1802

lapis1811

Waterloo blue1815

Waterloo1823

cobalt1835

Thénard's blue1837

iron blue1839

turnsole1839

permanent blue1863

opal blue1880

Haarlem blue1885

cyanine blue1886

cerulean blue1889

Victoria blue1890

Milori blue1899

Prussian1911

Windsor blue1912

gentianine1927

Monastral1936

Alcian Blue1947

1724 Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 33 17 A Process for making the Prussian blue.

1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman xix. 106 There are some others employed..in making Powder-Blue, commonly called Prussian Blue, from that Mystery being invented in that Kingdom.

1797 J. Barrow in D. Fairbridge Lady Anne Barnard (1924) 41 I send you a specimen of a paint-stone..you will find within a fine impalpable powder which when mixed with oil serves all the country people here as a paint... The blue is the most rare, and is the Native Prussian Blue.

1835 G. Field Chromatogr. xi. 112 Antwerp Blue is a lighter-coloured and somewhat brighter Prussian blue.

1868 E. L. Ormerod Brit. Soc. Wasps 14 Prussian-blue, known to washerwomen as stone-blue.

1907 P. B. Hawk Pract. Physiological Chem. 280 Add a little potassium ferrocyanide solution; a precipitate of Prussian blue forms upon standing.

1981 R. Scruton Fortnight's Anger i. 28 The sun..casts on the road long shadows of Prussian blue.

†2. A faithful, principled, or unswerving person. Chiefly as a term of affection or comradeship. Obsolete.In quot. 1858 perhaps with reference to a person in a blue uniform.

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1778 A. Murphy Know your own Mind ii. 38 Now, my sister, she is a Prussian blue, holds her colour, and is always the same.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxii. 342 ‘Vell, Sammy,’ said the father. ‘Vell, my Prooshan Blue,’ responded the son.

1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 1 The Kensington driver asked the police coachman ‘What's yer fare all the way, my prosshun blue?’

3. A variety of pea with bluish-green, thin-skinned seeds; = Prussian n. 2.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant

rouncival1570

garden pea1573

field pease1597

vale-grey1615

rose pea1629

hotspur1663

seven-year pea1672

rathe-ripe1677

huff-codc1680

pigeon pea1683

hog-pease1686

shrub pea1691

field pea1707

pea1707

crown pea1726

maple rouncival1731

marrowfat1731

moratto1731

pig pea1731

sickle-pea1731

hog pea1732

maple pea1732

marrow pea1733

black eye?1740

egg-pea1744

magotty bay bean1789

Prussian1804

maple grey1805

partridge pea1812

Prussian blue1822

scimitar1834

marrow1855

fill-basket1881

string-pea1891

mattar1908

vining pea1959

1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening iii. i. 690 The egg, the moratto, the Prussian blue, and the rouncivals,..are all very fine eating peas.

1857 Reedsburg (Wisconsin) Herald 5 Mar. As to the distance along the drill, distribute the peas according to their size..; the Prussian blue, and middle sized sorts, three in two inches.

1907 L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Agric. I. 506/1 The variety of field-pea that is used for forage..is usually known as the Canada field-pea, though the name includes a number of varieties, as Golden Vine, Prussian Blue.

1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm xii. 107 The round-seeded Prussian Blue used to be the most widely grown pea for drying and packeting.

B. adj. (attributive).

Of the colour of Prussian blue.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > other blues

mourning1709

Prussian blue1753

water blue1851

beryl-blue1881

Wedgwood1900

scale-blue1906

Nattier blue1912

whale-blue1946

1753 London Monthly Mercury May 19 A Composition of Iron, and some other Substance, which, when combined with that Metal, forms this Prussian blue Colour.

1783 W. M. Trinder Enq. into Medicinal Waters County Essex 9 A solution of the sal cœrulefaciens cast a perceptible Prussian blue colour in the water that was freshly drawn from the pump.

1842 R. H. Barham Lay St. Cuthbert in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 234 Le Scroope swore That none but his ancestors, ever before, In foray, joust, battle, or tournament wore, To wit, ‘On a Prussian-blue Field, a Bend Or’.

1887 Littell's Living Age 18 June 755/2 This I tied with a Prussian blue ribbon.

1966 J. Thomas Callander & Oban Railway x. 169 The Caledonian 2–4–2 tanks..had..and the Prussian-blue passenger livery then standard on the line.

1995 Daily News (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 15 Nov. 19 This spectacle combines both death and sensuality under the Prussian blue sky of the Andalusian twilight.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	prussian blue
释义	Prussian bluen.adj. Brit. /ˌprʌʃn ˈbluː/, U.S. /ˌprəʃ(ə)n ˈblu/ Forms: 1700s– Prussian blue, 1800s Prooshan blue, 1800s Prosshun blue. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Prussian adj., blue n. Etymology: < Prussian adj. + blue n., so called from being accidentally discovered by Diesbach, a colour-maker in Berlin (then capital of Prussia), in 1704, and announced as a pigment in Miscellanea berolinensia (1710) 1 iii. 377).Several chemical compounds similar to or obtained from Prussian blue, and some related terms, derive their names from this compound: see e.g. Prussian acid n., Prussian alkali n. at Prussian n. and adj. Compounds, etc., and also prussiate n., prussic adj., prussous adj. In use in sense A. 2 probably a variant or intensifier of true blue (see true blue adj. 1), perhaps with reference to the strong colour of the pigment. Use of the term in Dickens (in quot. 1837 at sense A. 2) is generally held to be a play on the deep colour of the pigment and the popularity of the Prussians after the Battle of Waterloo. However, quot. 1778 at sense A. 2 shows that use of the term in this sense antedates Waterloo. The following quot. offers an alternative, although perhaps erroneous, explanation of Dickens's use:1899 Westm. Gaz. 30 Aug. 3/2 We have no doubt that the true solution [of ‘my Prooshan blue’] is simple enough. The expression is a reference to a public-house sign common enough in the Pickwickian age, and often pictorially presented, namely, the portrait of the ‘King of Prussia’ in a blue uniform. A. n. 1. Any of several deep blue pigments consisting chiefly of ferric ferrocyanide, Fe³⁺₄[Fe²⁺(CN)₆]₃, used in painting and dyeing; the colour of such a pigment. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > blue pigment > specific azurec1374 lapis lazulia1425 litmusc1503 verditer1505 florey1527 bice1548 smalt1558 smalts1591 smalt1598 ultramarine1598 litmus blue1612 verditer1665 ultramarine blue (or colour)1686 blue sublimate1700 Prussian blue1724 terre bleue1728 starch blue1742 king's blue1778 verditel1778 Antwerp brown1787 Berlin blue1794 lacmus1794 Antwerp blue1795 French blue1802 lapis1811 Waterloo blue1815 Waterloo1823 cobalt1835 Thénard's blue1837 iron blue1839 turnsole1839 permanent blue1863 opal blue1880 Haarlem blue1885 cyanine blue1886 cerulean blue1889 Victoria blue1890 Milori blue1899 Prussian1911 Windsor blue1912 gentianine1927 Monastral1936 Alcian Blue1947 1724 Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 33 17 A Process for making the Prussian blue. 1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman xix. 106 There are some others employed..in making Powder-Blue, commonly called Prussian Blue, from that Mystery being invented in that Kingdom. 1797 J. Barrow in D. Fairbridge Lady Anne Barnard (1924) 41 I send you a specimen of a paint-stone..you will find within a fine impalpable powder which when mixed with oil serves all the country people here as a paint... The blue is the most rare, and is the Native Prussian Blue. 1835 G. Field Chromatogr. xi. 112 Antwerp Blue is a lighter-coloured and somewhat brighter Prussian blue. 1868 E. L. Ormerod Brit. Soc. Wasps 14 Prussian-blue, known to washerwomen as stone-blue. 1907 P. B. Hawk Pract. Physiological Chem. 280 Add a little potassium ferrocyanide solution; a precipitate of Prussian blue forms upon standing. 1981 R. Scruton Fortnight's Anger i. 28 The sun..casts on the road long shadows of Prussian blue. †2. A faithful, principled, or unswerving person. Chiefly as a term of affection or comradeship. Obsolete.In quot. 1858 perhaps with reference to a person in a blue uniform. ΚΠ 1778 A. Murphy Know your own Mind ii. 38 Now, my sister, she is a Prussian blue, holds her colour, and is always the same. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxii. 342 ‘Vell, Sammy,’ said the father. ‘Vell, my Prooshan Blue,’ responded the son. 1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 1 The Kensington driver asked the police coachman ‘What's yer fare all the way, my prosshun blue?’ 3. A variety of pea with bluish-green, thin-skinned seeds; = Prussian n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant rouncival1570 garden pea1573 field pease1597 vale-grey1615 rose pea1629 hotspur1663 seven-year pea1672 rathe-ripe1677 huff-codc1680 pigeon pea1683 hog-pease1686 shrub pea1691 field pea1707 pea1707 crown pea1726 maple rouncival1731 marrowfat1731 moratto1731 pig pea1731 sickle-pea1731 hog pea1732 maple pea1732 marrow pea1733 black eye?1740 egg-pea1744 magotty bay bean1789 Prussian1804 maple grey1805 partridge pea1812 Prussian blue1822 scimitar1834 marrow1855 fill-basket1881 string-pea1891 mattar1908 vining pea1959 1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening iii. i. 690 The egg, the moratto, the Prussian blue, and the rouncivals,..are all very fine eating peas. 1857 Reedsburg (Wisconsin) Herald 5 Mar. As to the distance along the drill, distribute the peas according to their size..; the Prussian blue, and middle sized sorts, three in two inches. 1907 L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Agric. I. 506/1 The variety of field-pea that is used for forage..is usually known as the Canada field-pea, though the name includes a number of varieties, as Golden Vine, Prussian Blue. 1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm xii. 107 The round-seeded Prussian Blue used to be the most widely grown pea for drying and packeting. B. adj. (attributive). Of the colour of Prussian blue. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > other blues mourning1709 Prussian blue1753 water blue1851 beryl-blue1881 Wedgwood1900 scale-blue1906 Nattier blue1912 whale-blue1946 1753 London Monthly Mercury May 19 A Composition of Iron, and some other Substance, which, when combined with that Metal, forms this Prussian blue Colour. 1783 W. M. Trinder Enq. into Medicinal Waters County Essex 9 A solution of the sal cœrulefaciens cast a perceptible Prussian blue colour in the water that was freshly drawn from the pump. 1842 R. H. Barham Lay St. Cuthbert in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 234 Le Scroope swore That none but his ancestors, ever before, In foray, joust, battle, or tournament wore, To wit, ‘On a Prussian-blue Field, a Bend Or’. 1887 Littell's Living Age 18 June 755/2 This I tied with a Prussian blue ribbon. 1966 J. Thomas Callander & Oban Railway x. 169 The Caledonian 2–4–2 tanks..had..and the Prussian-blue passenger livery then standard on the line. 1995 Daily News (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 15 Nov. 19 This spectacle combines both death and sensuality under the Prussian blue sky of the Andalusian twilight. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1724
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