| 单词 | mountain blue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain blue mountain blue n. [after German Bergblau (1716) or Swedish bergblått (1758 in the passage translated in quot. 1770), both lit. ‘mountain blue’] Mineralogy a blue or bluish copper mineral, esp. azurite or chrysocolla. ΚΠ 1770 G. von Engeström & E. M. da Costa tr. A. F. Cronstedt Ess. Syst. Mineral. 36 Mountain blue [Sw. bergblått], Cœruleum montanum. Germanicè, Bergblau. 1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 237/1 Earthy blue carbonat. Mountain blue. 1892 E. S. Dana J. D. Dana's Syst. Mineral. (ed. 6) 699 Chrysocolla... Mountain Blue and Mountain Green. 1993 A. M. Clark Hey's Mineral Index (ed. 3) 472/2 Mountain blue, syn. of azurite..and of chrysocolla. 1999 M. Frayn Headlong (2000) 95 I grind the crystals of copper carbonate, the azurite or verditer, the famous mountain blue for the receding planes of aerial perspective, and paint my way, blue by blue, up to the distant sea. < as lemmas |
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