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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A blue to green pigment consisting of a variable mixture of cobalt oxide and alumina.
  2. n. A moderate to deep vivid blue or greenish blue.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a deep blue pigment derived from cobalt; zaffre
  2. adj. The color of the pigment zaffre.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a dark blue pigment consisting of some salt of cobalt, as the phosphate, ignited with alumina; -- called also cobalt ultramarine, and Thenard's blue.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. greenish-blue pigment consisting essentially of cobalt oxide and alumina
  2. n. a shade of blue tinged with green

Examples

  • “Reaching into the cobalt blue velvet cape she wore against the late spring’s still-cool breezes, Rowena withdrew a small iron cleaver that she’d smuggled from the kitchen.”

    Simon & Schuster: Belle

  • “ As far as the eye could see there was nothing but mile upon mile of never-ending sand, burning golden-red against the cobalt blue sky.”

    Falcon's Prey

  • “Theme colors are bright, bold colors like fire-truck red and cobalt blue highlighted with metallic colors like silver and gold.”

    Simon & Schuster: pottytrain your child in just one day

  • “You lay down a wash of cobalt blue on a good white paper like a 240-pound cold-pressed D'Arches.”

    The Empress File

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  1. pigment
  1. blueness
  1. blue

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  1. zaffer-blue
  2. thenard's blue
  3. zaffer
  1. cobalt blue
  2. azure
  3. ceruleum
  1. lavendulan
  2. barometer-flowers
  3. smalt
  1. tomtit
  2. parochetus communis
  3. parus caeruleus
  1. shamrock pea
  2. blue tit
  3. cerulean blue
  1. cobalt ultramarine
  2. bleu-de-roi
  3. pottery
  1. sehta

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