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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A coal-tar color used in dyeing, and similar to soluble blue. It is principally used for dyeing cotton.

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Examples

  • Two of the walls were fronted in diamondoid, filtering water-blue artificial light from the man-made lake that surrounded the hotel and conference center.

    Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 9.3 of 31.1 2009

  • He seemed incapable of moving and squinted downward to see if his old comfortable Converse sneakers were buried in the nibbling water-blue carpet.

    Their Dogs Came With Them Helena María Viramontes 2007

  • Searching the near distance with his eyes, Louis could find no sign of vegetation-green or water-blue.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • Searching the near distance with his eyes, Louis could find no sign of vegetation-green or water-blue.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • In this clear and dreaming weather that is the end of summer, the hills curve up into a water-blue sky: in the hot windless night you see the very hills only as a soft, rounded darkness under the moon.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • In this clear and dreaming weather that is the end of summer, the hills curve up into a water-blue sky: in the hot windless night you see the very hills only as a soft, rounded darkness under the moon.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • So he stood, his brown neck and shaven-looking head quite bare, with his bit of stick wedged between his waist and the ground, staring with all his light-lashed water-blue eyes from under the thatch of his forelock.

    Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900

  • Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.

    The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855

  • Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

  • Glass tiles in water-blue and green wrap the walls.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

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