Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Very dark blue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a bluish-black color.
- noun A name of ivory-black, from its bluish hue; a color resembling ivory-black.
- noun A well-burnt and levigated charcoal prepared from vine-twigs. Also called
vine-black . - noun In making black leathers, the foundation for the final color, a bluish black which when finished is a jet-black on the grain side.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A very dark
blue . - noun Black with
bluish highlights.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of black tinged with blue
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Examples
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The birds spun like a blue-black dust devil before resettling out of sight.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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She stood slowly, wiping her mouth with the back of her wrist, then stared out at the blue-black water and the odd beauty of the downtown skyline framed by light-pollution haze and dim stars.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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The village witch doctor coated Mr. Holm's burns with a blue-black paste of boiled snake, tree bark and herbs.
Looking Back On the Spy Life Charles McCarry 2011
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She stood slowly, wiping her mouth with the back of her wrist, then stared out at the blue-black water and the odd beauty of the downtown skyline framed by light-pollution haze and dim stars.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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The sun gleamed off her long, blue-black hair, as if reflecting off a pool of water.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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Though some of these works are significant Samuel Palmer's Arcadian landscape bathed in a pink-and-gold sunset; Arthur Melville's nightscape of Venice, golden stone rising through a velvet blue-black sky, they form in aggregate the least interesting body of work in the show.
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There are still some fat, red berries among the hawthorns, though, and blackthorn bushes have their own blue-black berries known as sloes, which make delicious sloe gin.
Plantwatch: Traveller's joy and old man's beard herald Father Christmas 2011
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Yet, in our morning conversations, we both acknowledge that my talent with a Beretta pistol or his with a blue-black machine-gun pistol are not real.
Miguel Guhlin: In Loco Parentis Miguel Guhlin 2010
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The water was very smooth below us, the hard colour of some blue-black stone.
"If looks could kill, they probably will..." greygirlbeast 2009
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The birds spun like a blue-black dust devil before resettling out of sight.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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