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Royal blue   /rˈɔɪəl blu/   Listen
Royal blue

noun
1.
A shade of blue tinged with purple.  Synonym: purplish blue.






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"Royal blue" Quotes from Famous Books



... the rule. A plain, strident, powerful old woman bucketing through calm and trouble with the same reproach for either. The "Felice" wore rusty black—coarse and patched. She had long ago forsaken her girlish waist band of royal blue esteeming such fallals better suited to the children of the fleet. She was a no-nonsense lady, one of the "up and doing and you be damned" sort, but she boasted at least one unusual feature, the pride and envy of her fellows. ...
— Men of Affairs • Roland Pertwee

... always has been, per mare, per terram, such as reflected the highest credit upon the corps. They were not "Royal" in those days, nor were they light infantry; the first title came to them in 1802, when their facings were changed from white to royal blue, and it was not until 1855 that they were designated ...
— The Naval Pioneers of Australia • Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery



Words linked to "Royal blue" :   blueness, blue



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