The Blues

468. Blueness. --N. blue &c. adj.; garter-blue; watchet.
[Pigments] ultramarine, smalt, cobalt, cyanogen; Prussian --, syenite-blue; bice, indigo, woad.
lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise.
blue-, bluish-ness; bloom.
Adj. blue, azure, cerulean; sky-blue, -coloured, -dyed; nazy-blue, cyanic; bluish; atmospheric, retiring; cold.
-- Mark Peter Roget, M.D., F.R.S., enlarged by John Lewis Roget, M.A., new edition revised and enlarged by Samuel Romilly Roget, M.A. [Edition of 1941]


Today's earrings: sapphires, aquamarines

Bedtime reading: Maskerade, Terry Pratchett