beryl blue

noun

1. a light greenish blue.

Word History and Origins

Origin of beryl blue¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

He describes them of a beautiful “beryl blue” and noted that the ice falling from the snouts into the sea formed icebergs and that these icebergs often incorporated and transported rocks and debris.

From Scientific American

All round, the pure surfaces of the ice-fields were broken by the shadows which the hummocks and bergs cast over them, and by the pools of clear water which shone like crystals in their hollows, while the beautiful beryl blue of the larger bergs gave a delicate colouring to the dazzling scene.

From Project Gutenberg

Delicate pink deepened to rose crimson; pale greens softened into the beryl blue of stupendous glaciers, vast frozen cataracts which flowed down deep and broad clefts almost to the water's edge.

From Project Gutenberg

All round the pure surfaces of the ice-fields were broken by the shadows which the hummocks and bergs cast over them, and by the pools of clear water which shone like crystals in their hollows, while the beautiful beryl blue of the larger bergs gave a delicate colouring to the dazzling scene.

From Project Gutenberg