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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Very dark blue.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of a bluish-black color.
  2. n. A name of ivory-black, from its bluish hue; a color resembling ivory-black.
  3. n. A well-burnt and levigated charcoal prepared from vine-twigs. Also called vine-black.
  4. n. In making black leathers, the foundation for the final color, a bluish black which when finished is a jet-black on the grain side.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A very dark blue.
  2. n. Black with bluish highlights.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a pigment of a blue black color.
  2. adj. of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost black.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of black tinged with blue

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