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cobalt blue
noun
- a deep blue to a strong greenish-blue color.
- any of a number of pigments containing an oxide of cobalt.
cobalt blue
noun
- Also calledThénard's blue any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
- a deep blue to greenish-blue colour
- ( as adjective )
a cobalt-blue car
Word History and Origins
Origin of cobalt blue1
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Example Sentences
Shasta with puffy white clouds drifting across a cobalt blue sky, Griffin recalled one of his worst days on the job.
The brothers themselves appeared in court via a video feed from a San Diego prison, wearing identical cobalt blue prison uniforms.
Of course, in the fashion world, an item of clothing can't just be blue, so Laws says he thinks cornflower and cobalt blue will make a particular appearance across shows.
Five feet tall, the cobalt blue stoneware figure of a lifesize headless women in a voluminous, bell-shaped skirt shows her cupping aggressive, bullet-like breasts in her hands.
Another of them, rendered almost invisibly in shellac on deep cobalt blue moiré, circles around to give the exhibition its trenchant title: “Now then, as I was about to say …”
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