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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as mazarine-blue.
  2. n. A blue gown worn by common-councilmen.
  3. To decorate with lace in a special manner; edge, as with campane lace.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A dark blue colour.
  2. adj. Of a dark blue colour.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister of France, 1643-1661.
  2. n. Mazarine blue.
  3. n. A forcemeat entrée.

Examples

  • “Descending a trap, we reached the so-called mazarine-floor, a corruption of the Italian _mezzanine_, from which the musicians have access to the orchestra.”

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852

  • “This last was a good-sized square of bright yellow silk, with polka-dots of mazarine blue.”

    Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887

  • “She wore now, when it stormed, thick woollen stockings and sabots; and another skirt of the Mère Bourron's fastened around a chemise of coarse homespun linen, its colour faded to a delicious pale mazarine blue, showing the strength and fullness of her body.”

    A Village of Vagabonds

  • “Can you tell me, my little miss," said he, "why an elephant with a glass globe of gold-fish tied to his tail is like a monkey with one pink eye and one of a mazarine blue?”

    St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878

  • “The saints and friars are generally attired in mazarine blue.”

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

  • “She wears a foul mob, that does not cover her greasy black locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled, mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvas petticoat.”

    Lady Mary Wortley Montague

  • “You've hidden all her hair under that mazarine, and too many patches become not a brown skin.”

    Audrey

  • “They looked and saw two velvet Marquees, one striped in broad bands of apple-green and mazarine blue, the other in pale rose and cream, which a party of attendants had just finished putting up.”

    In Brief Authority

  • “She had grown tall, and the mazarine blue merino dress fitted the slender form with scrupulous exactness.”

    Beulah

  • “She wears a foul mob that does not cover her greasy black locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled; an old mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvas petticoat.”

    A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)

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  • yarb Used by the 16 year-old me in a pretentious poem about genii. Oct 26, 2007

  • sionnach Mazarine blue, a deep blue color, named in honor of Cardinal Mazarin. Oct 26, 2007

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