Definitions

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  • adjective colour Of a colour between blue and red; purple.

Etymologies

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From blue +‎ red. Compare Old English blēorēad ("blue-red, purple").

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Examples

  • The best-known joint-issuance proposal is the so-called blue-red model, drafted by researchers at the Brussels-based Bruegel institute.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Dark veins, like worms pulsing blue-red, stood out on the side of his head.

    This Game Requires Two Players MaryAnne Kolton 2012

  • Memphis, Swagger, Cruz, and Okada raced through the hallway to the exit dock, where a black FBI Explorer, its blue-red lights already flashing, its engine running, waited.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • About two hundred yards to the right, he could see a convoy of black Explorers, blue-red light flashes blinking out from their interiors, before and aft a great black Lincoln limousine.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • Oh – the purple blue opalescent is my fav, followed by the blue-red.

    Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » December 2008 Ornaments 2008

  • About two hundred yards to the right, he could see a convoy of black Explorers, blue-red light flashes blinking out from their interiors, before and aft a great black Lincoln limousine.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • Each was a festival of blue-red flashes, and behind the screen of pulsing illumination, figures ducked and bobbed, dark men, bent double over their weapons, trying to find an angle to get the killing shot.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • Memphis, Swagger, Cruz, and Okada raced through the hallway to the exit dock, where a black FBI Explorer, its blue-red lights already flashing, its engine running, waited.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • Below, a decrepit window box houses a single, blue-red geranium.

    Dr. Cara Barker: The One Essential Thing You Can Do to Find Contentment 2010

  • Each was a festival of blue-red flashes, and behind the screen of pulsing illumination, figures ducked and bobbed, dark men, bent double over their weapons, trying to find an angle to get the killing shot.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

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