| 单词 | blue adelaide |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue Adelaide A dark blue colour. Also occasionally blue Adelaide. Now rare.Common in the mid 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > dark blue bicec1430 navy blue1780 marine blue1803 midnight blue1810 Adelaide1831 Oxford blue1842 butcher's blue1851 gros bleu1870 marine1871 gendarme blue1884 navy1884 butcher1892 matelot1927 1831 La Belle Assemblée Feb. 86/2 The colours most in request are pensée, bleu, Adelaide, Lafayette, Vert, Colibri, violet, rose, and Indian yellow. 1831 Observer 3 Apr. Lilac, rose colour, blue-Adelaide, and white, are the colours in request. 1850 D. Smith Dyer's Instructor 26 The Plum colour, Mulberry, and Adelaide, have been dyed upon this mode for the true colours. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. (new ed.) II. 487/2 For the American market: brown, green, olive, bottle, black, Adelaide, olive brown. 1902 Notes & Queries 23 Aug. 155/2 Adelaide was a colour in vogue in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, obviously named after Queen Adelaide, so that the date of its currency may be easily inferred. < as lemmas |
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