Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Pearly blue; clear pale blue, like the bloom on a plum.
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Examples
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The darkness had intensified, and a slight breeze furrowed the pearl-blue sea.
Hunger 2003
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Jarre stood some distance away from him, staring in awe at the coralite isle floating in the pearl-blue sky.
The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993
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A little privacy, here, in the pearl-blue dawn, was all Mary could hope for.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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A little privacy, here, in the pearl-blue dawn, was all Mary could hope for.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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The portion covering the hyaline cartilage of the navicular bone has lost its peculiar pearl-blue shimmer, and become a dirty yellow.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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The darkness had intensified, and a slight breeze furrowed the pearl-blue sea.
Hunger Knut Hamsun 1905
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He was an amphibian, and, as such, undeniably beautiful; for the sunlight, refracted and diffused in the water, gave his translucent, pearl-blue body all the shifting colors of the spectrum.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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Plumage pure white, with a black cap on the head, a pearl-blue mantle, and silver-black shades on the long wing-feathers, which look as if they had hoar frost on them.
Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870
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The water was delicious on that hot day in the steamy jungle, and the band was refreshed -- Mark having hard work to refrain from chasing some gorgeous butterfly of green and gold, or with wings painted in pearl-blue, steel, and burnished silver.
Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle George Manville Fenn 1870
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