wine-blue

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English

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Etymology

From wine +‎ blue.

Adjective

wine-blue (comparative more wine-blue, superlative most wine-blue)

  2. Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine.
    Hypernyms: vinous, vinaceous
    Near-synonyms: wine-dark, winelike
    • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
      We trudge on then by the moor path, to the high brow of the wine-blue purple-dark hill, and fling ourselves down there, and dream there and see there a grasshopper, carting back to his home in the hollow, a straw.
    • 1984, Christopher Pollnitz, Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems, page 175:
      He'd love to sip a pint in a decent pub who never will, though down by wineblue Black Sea . . . ah!
    • 1988, E. C. Curtsinger, Towers, Crosses, page 255:
      Beside the wineblue sea, magnificent silver tanks big as a mountain gleamed in the sun.
    • 1997, Jeffrey Carson, Poems, 1974-1996, page 7:
      And the sea, as you row, allures like a woman:
      Rose at dawn, wineblue at noon, gold at dusk,
      More of a drug than lotos-syrup.
    • 2002, Astrid Sæther, Ibsen and the Arts, page 26:
      The sun that coloured Lissa's wineblue depths
      That tanned Porta Pia's red pikes
      And chased into the dungeons the creep of the Vatican […]
    • 2011, Henry Power, Homer's 'Odyssey':
      Now I have come in as you see, with my ship and companions sailing over the wine-blue water to men of alien language.
    2. Of a specific color among several that represent red wine.
      Coordinate terms: vinaceous, wine-dark
      wine-blue:  

Noun

wine-blue (countable and uncountable, plural wine-blues)

  2. Any of a range of colours between indigo and purple, like those of some red wines.
    • 1885, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 26, page 676:
      Mulder and Maumené have given it the name of œnocyan or wine-blue, as its color, when neutral, is blue; the red color of genuine wines is due to the presence of tartaric and acetic acid acting upon the wine-blue.
    • 1964, The Limfjord, Its Towns and People, page 153:
      In this modestly sized canvas you find the wonderful blue colour of the Limfjord — a colour Homer called “wineblue” (oinops).
    2. A specific color among several that represent red wine.
      Coordinate terms: vinaceous, wine-dark
      wine-blue:  
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