Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A moderate to dark or strong greenish blue.
Wiktionary
- n. A brilliant, dark blue-green colour.
- adj. Of a brilliant blue-green colour.
Examples
“In a moment the demoness brought a shimmering peacock blue silk panty oversewn with a golden net.”
“It was of pumpkin-colored velvet with trailing devoré sleeves and a wide belt of peacock blue satin.”
“Jade green alternated with turquoise, peacock blue with emerald, while now the canoe skimmed over reddish purple pools, and again over pools of dazzling, shimmering white where pounded coral sand lay beneath and upon which oozed monstrous sea-slugs.”
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Chromonyms 2
Names for colors composed of two or more words. All of these are defined as colors in at least one dictionary, most being in MW3. See Chromonyms for one-word color names.
Some well-kno...absinthe green, moss green, pea green, apple green, yellow stone, dusty yellow, absinthe yellow, liqueur green, olive wood, tilleul buff, white jade, café au lait and 1529 more...
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just words.
coquette, solecism, peripherally, recrudescence, viscid, turpitude, sententious, light-heeled, interminably, unflappable, palpably, solicitous and 215 more...
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rainbow
ambergris, purple, alabaster, vermillion, heliotrope, indigo, gold, azure, russet, carmine, aquamarine, garnet and 67 more...
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Great Color Names
obsidian, vermillion, cardinal, ultramarine, chartreuse, puce, taupe, sable, slate, cerise, garnet, mauve and 88 more...
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