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单词 cerulean
释义

cerulean

/sɪˈruːlɪən /
literary
adjective
Deep blue in colour like a clear sky: images of cerulean waters and golden sands...
  • She had turned to find a pair of clear, dark, cerulean blue eyes looking into her own amethyst ones from a face nearly as pale as her own.
  • Those pretty, crystal clear cerulean eyes of our mother's were burning holes into either side Liz's already flushed face.
  • He did wonder why they had those same cerulean eyes as clear as crystal.
noun [mass noun]
A deep sky-blue colour: the background was painted in cerulean blue...
  • She was slowly coloring the entire page in shades of aqua and cerulean, paralleling the ceiling above.
  • The eyes could be either as cold and sparkling as sapphires or as warm and limpid as the deep cerulean of the sea, or even, in certain moods, the misty blue of the mountains.
  • The water was an insipid hue of cerulean, the texture rough with salt to his sensitized skin.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin caeruleus 'sky blue', from caelum 'sky'.

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