Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A blue so dark that it is nearly black. Similar to blue-black.

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Examples

  • Her hands were stained that purple-blue, and her lips were ringed black-blue, and a once-plump blueberry teetered on her tongue, staining her teeth as gray as a November sky.

    Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

  • Her hands were stained that purple-blue, and her lips were ringed black-blue, and a once-plump blueberry teetered on her tongue, staining her teeth as gray as a November sky.

    Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

  • Her hands were stained that purple-blue, and her lips were ringed black-blue, and a once-plump blueberry teetered on her tongue, staining her teeth as gray as a November sky.

    Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

  • At a bit past two, with gelled-back hair, a wave right down the middle, the Members Only jacket he got back after leaving prison, and Wrangler jeans still black-blue, he headed out, driving toward the place where he hoped to see his son.

    The Son of Estelle Ivy Lou Freshwater 2011

  • At her nephew's nuptials which, in accordance with Jerusalem custom, took place outdoors, under a chuppah (wedding canopy), Stewart said she was moved by "that black-blue sky and that breeze, with the chuppah and tallit (prayer shawl) with the navy-blue stripes and the olive trees holding up the chuppah."

    Martha Stewart sets her sights on Israel 2011

  • Down dropped the black-blue robes, gray-pearled, and slipped, leaving a filmy, silken, misty thing, and underneath I glimpsed her limb of utter light.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • As if just for her, he spread his shimmering tail in a wheel of turquoise and green and black-blue.

    The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010

  • A dark black-blue figure on the bed in the darkness, she turned and her face was illuminated in the pale red spotlight of the clock on the nightstand.

    Babylon Nights Daniel Depp 2010

  • The room lacked a roof, revealing the flat sky — a muddled black-blue haze of clouds and stars and moon, that repeated again and again.

    Quarter-turn the Quaternion 2010

  • I miss that one... always seemed more woodsy than the yellow/black-blue one.

    Month of MARVEL: Day 22 Dean 2008

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