Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A compound of indigo and starch or whiting.

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Examples

  • We could see the ocean down a cactus draw, stone-blue and still.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • I remember the color, the stone-blue that turned to glass-green inside the necked bottle of the barrel.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • His eyes were stone-blue and expressionless, the kind of eyes that looked through the glass at guinea-pigs dying of clinically induced cancer.

    The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

  • The garden of the villa was a plot of land reaching down to a parapet lapped by the still stone-blue waters of the lake.

    Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

  • The Scottish foreman-shipwright in the yard office looked up from his standing-desk, lifting, to the light of the open door a red monkey-face comically fringed with coppery whiskers, and stared at him ferociously with little stone-blue eyes.

    Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

  • In that little stone-blue volume, "War is Kind," and in the earlier

    Stephen Crane. From an English Standpoint 1900

  • His imagination was forever covering the white walls with rough stone-blue paper, and placing screens, divans, and window-seats in different parts of the cold bare room.

    Vandover and the Brute Frank Norris 1886

  • The walls were covered with rough stone-blue paper, forming an admirable background to small plaster casts of Assyrian

    Vandover and the Brute Frank Norris 1886

  • Already he saw himself installed in charming bachelor's apartments, the walls covered with rough stone-blue paper forming an admirable background for small plaster casts of Assyrian _bas-reliefs_ and photogravures of Velasquez portraits.

    Vandover and the Brute Frank Norris 1886

  • The rim of the cup, rising high and densely wooded round the placid stone-blue water, has a sort of natural artificiality.

    Italian Hours Henry James 1879

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