Alice blue

noun

1. a pale grayish-blue color.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Alice blue¹

1920–25, Americanism; named after Alice Longworth (daughter of Theodore Roosevelt)

Example Sentences

However, Alec Baldwin, who worked with Allen on Alice, Blue Jasmine and To Rome With Love, said the "renunciation of him and his work" was "unfair and sad".

From BBC

After Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Alice became a media sensation, thanks to her pet snake Emily Spinach and her blue dresses that started a fashion trend of wearing “Alice Blue,” she was dispatched to represent the President on a 1905 voyage to Asia.

From Time

Speaking more softly, Roosevelt gave us “Alice blue,” a tint named for his daughter Alice, and inspired “teddy bear,” after a toymaker was moved by the president’s refusal to shoot a cub on a hunting trip.

From New York Times

"There's Elizabethan ruff, and de Medici collar, and Queen Anne cottage, and Alice blue," I suggested.

From Project Gutenberg

Shirley sang In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown, but her younger sister Gloria won the contest with a rendition of On a Slow Boat to China.

From Time Magazine Archive