cerulean
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A cerulean sky.
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Etymology
From Latin caeruleus (“blue”) + -an, from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
cerulean (countable and uncountable, plural ceruleans)
- (countable and uncountable) A greenish-blue color.
- cerulean:
- 2014, William H. Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 59:
- For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]
- (countable) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Jamides.
Translations
sky blue — see also sky blue
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Adjective
cerulean (comparative more cerulean, superlative most cerulean)
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- Sky-blue.
- 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart:
- As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […] . Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […] , the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.
- 1995, “The Hearts Filthy Lesson”, in 1. Outside, performed by David Bowie:
- Oh Ramona, if there was only some kind of future / And these cerulean skies / Something in our skies, something in our skies
- 2006, Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, spoken by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep):
- But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets?
Derived terms
Translations
sky blue — see also sky blue
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See also
- (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre (Category: en:Blues)