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cerulean, a.|sɪˈruːlɪən|
Also cæ-.
[f. L. cærule-us dark blue, dark green, applied to the sky, the sea (Mediterranean), but occas. to leaves, fields: cf. Welsh glas. In the mod. langs. always taken as deep blue.]
A. adj.
a. Of the colour of the cloudless sky, pure deep blue, azure. Chiefly poetic.
1667Primatt City & C. Build. 71 For Painting the best Cerulian or Blew colour in Oyl is. 6d. a yard. 1677Sir T. Herbert Trav. 129 (T.) Mosques and hummums with their cerulean tiles and gilded vanes. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. iv. 83 He spread the pure Cerulean Fields on high. 1725Pope Odyss. viii. 284 We..through cærulian billows plough the way. 1791Cowper Iliad ii. 545 Her eyes cerulean rolled. 1847Emerson Threnody Wks. (Bohn) I. 487 Within the air's cerulean round.
b. humorous = blue a. 7.
1831Cat's Tail 28 Being cerulean (which so much the ton is).
c. cerulean blue, an artist's colour prepared from cobalt, a brilliant light blue pigment.
1889in Cent. Dict. 1962R. G. Haggar Dict. Art Terms 71/2 Cerulean blue, a lovely, bright,..turquoise blue made from cobalt and tin oxides, first prepared in about 1860. It is..of great value for use in rendering atmospheric effects in landscape painting.
B. quasi n. (ellipt.).
1. Cerulean colour or hue.
1756Gentl. Mag. 39 Tinctured with a bright cerulean, then with a fine azure. 1835New Monthly Mag. 299 The sky was clear and of the milky cerulean of chrysoprase.
2. humorous. A blue-stocking, a ‘blue’.
1821Byron Juan iv. cviii, O ye, who make the fortunes of all books! Benign Ceruleans of the second sex! |