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peacock blue

noun

  1. a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.


peacock blue

noun

    1. a greenish-blue colour
    2. ( as adjective )

      a peacock-blue car

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of peacock blue1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

His ornate turban changed colors, the folds cycling through peacock blues and sherbet oranges and butter yellows, while its tiny diamonds caught the moonlight.

To solve this problem, Ridgway published two dictionaries of over a thousand different colors, from mustard gold to peacock blue, featuring page after page of hand-painted color swatches.

And this woman was the first spirit that was dressed up, wearing a fancy hat filled with feathers and sparkles and a dress that looked similar to Clara’s, a brilliant shade of peacock blue.

Its castle-shaped headquarters in central New Jersey has been lit up in “peacock blue” every night this week.

So here we remain, on our binge-watching island, a peacock blue couch I bought in an era when the frivolous worry of whether I would always love this color was among my most pressing concerns.

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