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
- technical drawing
- technical fix
- technical foul
- technical hitch
- technicalism
- technicality
- technicalize
- technical knockout
- technically
- technicalness
- technical rehearsal
- technical sergeant
- technical support
- technical verse
- technical water
- technician
- technicise
- technicism
- technicist
- technicity
- technicization
- technicize
- technicized
- technicology
- Technicolor