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Peacock-blue   /pˈikˌɑk-blu/   Listen
Peacock-blue

adjective
1.
Of bright greenish blue.






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"Peacock-blue" Quotes from Famous Books



... of sound. When other means fail, qualities are suggested by the names of things which exhibit them in a salient way; figures by such terms as amphitheatre, bowl-like, pear-shaped, egg-shaped; colours by lias-blue, sky-blue, gentian-blue, peacock-blue; and similarly with sounds, smells and tastes. It is also important to express by short terms complex qualities, as harmony, fragrance, organisation, sex, ...
— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read



Words linked to "Peacock-blue" :   chromatic



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