saxe blue

/ sæks /

noun

1. 1. a light greyish-blue colour
   2. ( as adjective )

      a saxe-blue dress

Word History and Origins

Origin of saxe blue¹

C19: from French Saxe Saxony, source of a dye of this colour

Example Sentences

You'd look nice in this biscuit, or this saxe blue.

From Project Gutenberg

Her own movements were awkward and jerky, but she would watch fascinated while dainty Alice Orton, the dunce, even of Vb, performed a scarf dance, and she came to school one day in such a palpable though indifferently made copy of Agnes Clifford's fashionable dress of Saxe blue gabardine, that some of the girls openly giggled in the cloakroom, an offence for which she never really forgave them.

From Project Gutenberg

Pale pink, pale blue, Saxe blue, navy for my gym. costume, black for a useful one, and olive green to go with my velveteen Sunday dress.

From Project Gutenberg

An arrangement of plumbago and maidenhair, and pale blue shaded candles casting a dim light, carried out the saxe blue effect that Mrs. Wilder had evolved with the assistance of a ladies' paper that dealt with "effective and original table decoration."

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