mazarine

• “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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