starch bluen.adj.

Brit.

/ˌstɑːtʃ ˈbluː/, U.S.

/ˌstɑrtʃ ˈblu/

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

Etymology: < starch n. + blue n.

A. n.

a. A blue powder (spec. smalt or azure) used to dye starch. Now historical.

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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

the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs > other dyes

stone-blue1675

starch blue1742

Saxon blue1753

fig-blue1786

chemic1792

Turkey blue1815

Paris blue1835

Saxony blue1857

soluble blue1879

methylene blue1882

indoin1884

phenylene blue1884

indamine1888

Nile blue1888

gallamine blue1889

neutral blue1889

chrome-blue1892

toluidine blue1898

indanthrene1901

Saxe blue1905

trypan blue1911

mandarin blue1912

1742 J. Martyn & E. Chambers tr. Philos. Hist. & Mem. Royal Acad. Sci. Paris V. 92 The turquois..is above all things to be free of any cast of whiteness, that is, as the jewellers express it, it must not resemble starch blue [Fr. bleu d'empois], but the blue rather of verdigrease in the lump.

1797 Encycl. Brit. II. 707/2 Azure is employed to colour starch; hence it has also been called starch-blue.

1969 Stud. Conservation 14 47 Smalt... Obsolete terminology and synonyms. Starch blue.

2012 E. Bergslien Introd. Forensic Geoscience (ed. 2) viii. 301 Smalt (starch blue) is a pigment composed of ground blue-tinted glass and was the earliest of the cobalt pigments.

b. A pale shade of blue or greenish-blue.

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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

the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > greenish blue

peacock colour1598

verditer1819

verdigris blue1832

robin's-egg blue1844

aquamarine1846

turquoise1853

verditer blue1857

bird's-egg blue1858

Alice1872

Nile blue1873

starch blue1875

cyan-blue1879

peacock1881

peacock blue1881

bird's egg1885

Gobelin blue1886

cyan1889

Nile1895

kingfisher1901

Alice blue1905

teal1923

aqua1936

teal blue1949

1875 Hand Bk. Visitors examining Pottery & Porcelain (Metrop. Mus. Art) 49 Vase. Celadon of ‘starch-blue’, with raised work.

1910 Metropol. Mus. Art Bull. 5 73/2 The color of the modern Kuan glaze appears to be a crackled lavender, either light or dark, the ‘starch blue’ of the dealer.

1990 Contemp. Rev. May 271 Bellowing with light and space; bursting in mile-long breakers of soap-stone green and starch blue.

2. = starch iodide n. at starch n. Compounds 3. Now rare.

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1836 J. Inglis in London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. & Jrnl. Sci. 8 14 The water precipitates starch blue.

1892 H. E. Wright Handy Bk. Brewers vi. 211 It is possible by the addition of a very little, and that dilute, iodine solution to cause the starch-blue to develop.

1903 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30 60 If these solutions [of formalin and starch] are treated with NH₄OH..iodine will again give the typical starch blue.

1948 Science 17 Sept. 302/1 After complete extraction of the iodine,..no radioactivity was found in the starch blue.

B. adj.

Of a pale blue or greenish-blue colour.

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

bluec1400

watchet1496

azurine1577

watchet-coloured1609

turkina1630

watercoloured1660

powder blue1789

Eton blue1851

opal blue1856

starch blue1875

watchet-hued1895

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

turquoise1573

pavonaceous1688

aquamarine1846

verditer1857

robin's egg1871

peacock1873

starch blue1875

bird's-egg blue1878

Alice blue1905

kingfisher1930

teal blue1949

1875 Hand Bk. Visitors examining Pottery & Porcelain (Metrop. Mus. Art) 49 Bottle. ‘Starch-blue’ Celadon fleuré.

1888 S. F. Latimer Eng. in Canary Isles (ed. 2) xx. 272 The bladder [of the Portuguese man-of-war] is of a starch-blue clearness.

1913 Illustr. Catal. Oriental Porcelain Estate M. C. D. Borden (Amer. Art Assoc., N.Y.) No. 239 Starch-blue bottle-shape vase.

1978 Arch. Asian Art 31 139/3 Saucer: Ch'ien-lung era.., porcelain, starch-blue glaze.

2011 A. Berry Water Children (2012) 105 The rays of a milky sun, magnified through the starch-blue glass of the sky, scorch down mercilessly on both town and country alike.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	starch blue
释义	starch bluen.adj. Brit. /ˌstɑːtʃ ˈbluː/, U.S. /ˌstɑrtʃ ˈblu/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: starch n., blue n. Etymology: < starch n. + blue n. A. n. 1. a. A blue powder (spec. smalt or azure) used to dye starch. Now historical. 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 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs > other dyes stone-blue1675 starch blue1742 Saxon blue1753 fig-blue1786 chemic1792 Turkey blue1815 Paris blue1835 Saxony blue1857 soluble blue1879 methylene blue1882 indoin1884 phenylene blue1884 indamine1888 Nile blue1888 gallamine blue1889 neutral blue1889 chrome-blue1892 toluidine blue1898 indanthrene1901 Saxe blue1905 trypan blue1911 mandarin blue1912 1742 J. Martyn & E. Chambers tr. Philos. Hist. & Mem. Royal Acad. Sci. Paris V. 92 The turquois..is above all things to be free of any cast of whiteness, that is, as the jewellers express it, it must not resemble starch blue [Fr. bleu d'empois], but the blue rather of verdigrease in the lump. 1797 Encycl. Brit. II. 707/2 Azure is employed to colour starch; hence it has also been called starch-blue. 1969 Stud. Conservation 14 47 Smalt... Obsolete terminology and synonyms. Starch blue. 2012 E. Bergslien Introd. Forensic Geoscience (ed. 2) viii. 301 Smalt (starch blue) is a pigment composed of ground blue-tinted glass and was the earliest of the cobalt pigments. b. A pale shade of blue or greenish-blue. 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 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > greenish blue peacock colour1598 verditer1819 verdigris blue1832 robin's-egg blue1844 aquamarine1846 turquoise1853 verditer blue1857 bird's-egg blue1858 Alice1872 Nile blue1873 starch blue1875 cyan-blue1879 peacock1881 peacock blue1881 bird's egg1885 Gobelin blue1886 cyan1889 Nile1895 kingfisher1901 Alice blue1905 teal1923 aqua1936 teal blue1949 1875 Hand Bk. Visitors examining Pottery & Porcelain (Metrop. Mus. Art) 49 Vase. Celadon of ‘starch-blue’, with raised work. 1910 Metropol. Mus. Art Bull. 5 73/2 The color of the modern Kuan glaze appears to be a crackled lavender, either light or dark, the ‘starch blue’ of the dealer. 1990 Contemp. Rev. May 271 Bellowing with light and space; bursting in mile-long breakers of soap-stone green and starch blue. 2. = starch iodide n. at starch n. Compounds 3. Now rare. ΚΠ 1836 J. Inglis in London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. & Jrnl. Sci. 8 14 The water precipitates starch blue. 1892 H. E. Wright Handy Bk. Brewers vi. 211 It is possible by the addition of a very little, and that dilute, iodine solution to cause the starch-blue to develop. 1903 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30 60 If these solutions [of formalin and starch] are treated with NH₄OH..iodine will again give the typical starch blue. 1948 Science 17 Sept. 302/1 After complete extraction of the iodine,..no radioactivity was found in the starch blue. B. adj. Of a pale blue or greenish-blue colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > light blue bluec1400 watchet1496 azurine1577 watchet-coloured1609 turkina1630 watercoloured1660 powder blue1789 Eton blue1851 opal blue1856 starch blue1875 watchet-hued1895 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > greenish blue turquoise1573 pavonaceous1688 aquamarine1846 verditer1857 robin's egg1871 peacock1873 starch blue1875 bird's-egg blue1878 Alice blue1905 kingfisher1930 teal blue1949 1875 Hand Bk. Visitors examining Pottery & Porcelain (Metrop. Mus. Art) 49 Bottle. ‘Starch-blue’ Celadon fleuré. 1888 S. F. Latimer Eng. in Canary Isles (ed. 2) xx. 272 The bladder [of the Portuguese man-of-war] is of a starch-blue clearness. 1913 Illustr. Catal. Oriental Porcelain Estate M. C. D. Borden (Amer. Art Assoc., N.Y.) No. 239 Starch-blue bottle-shape vase. 1978 Arch. Asian Art 31 139/3 Saucer: Ch'ien-lung era.., porcelain, starch-blue glaze. 2011 A. Berry Water Children (2012) 105 The rays of a milky sun, magnified through the starch-blue glass of the sky, scorch down mercilessly on both town and country alike. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1742
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