saxe
/saks
/(also saxe blue)
noun [mass noun]
A light blue colour with a greyish tinge.She wore a navy serge skirt, white silk blouse, saxe blue cardigan, and a yard of broad saxe blue ribbon at either end of her waist-long plait.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from French, literally 'Saxony', the source of a dye of this colour.
Rhymes
- water packer
- water park
- water parsley
- water parsnip
- water-parting
- water patient
- water pepper
- water pepperwort
- water pheasant
- Water Pick
- water-pick
- water piece
- Water Pik
- waterpik
- water pill
- water pillow
- water pimpernel
- water pine
- water pipe
- water pipit
- water pistol
- water pit
- water pitcher
- water place
- waterplane