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Nile blue

noun

  1. pale greenish blue.


Nile blue

noun

    1. a pale greenish-blue colour
    2. ( as adjective )

      a Nile-blue carpet

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Nile blue1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

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Its Bond animal rhino key tray comes in Nile blue, and is priced at $495.

From

But in certain moods it is exhausting to resist the richness of Dempsey blue, a heartache shade of azure named for the firm of Dempsey & Carroll, or the cool beauty of the Nile blue sold by Smythson.

From

Blue.—Methylene blue, new methylene blue, toluidine blue, thionine blue, indamine blue, Victoria blue, night blue, Nile blue, turquoise blue, marine blue, indoine blue, metamine blue, Capri blue, indazine, metaphenylene blue, paraphenylene blue, toluylene blue, indigene, indol blue, diphene blue, setopaline, setocyanine, setoglaucine, Helvetia blue.

From

Niam, singers from, 301.Nile, see "White Nile," "Blue Nile."

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