ceruleanadjective
uk/səˈruː.li.ən/us/səˈruː.li.ən/literarydeep blue in colour
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Less common colours
- aquamarine
- azure
- beige
- blood red
- burgundy
- burnish
- chestnut
- chrome yellow
- cobalt
- earth colour
- ecru
- ginger
- magenta
- maroon
- raw sienna
- ruddy
- russet
- sage green
- steely
- violet
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Examples from literature
- In great derision he squirted half a tube of cerulean blue upon his canvas.
- One meets with a hundred streams equal to this in width, while travelling in America, though it is rare to find one anywhere with the same majesty of motion, and of its fine cerulean tint.
- The sun had the brightness and the sky the soft cerulean with which the month of June adorns the latitude of Carolina.
- The water was of a soft green tint, that shaded off here and there into dark cerulean.
- They were not looking at the bay, exquisite as it was in its cerulean beauty.