cyan blue

American  

noun

1. a moderate greenish-blue to bluish-green color.

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Etymology

Origin of cyan blue

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

The instant the dancers, clad in cyan blue surf tops and shorts, began performing Brown’s choreography, the natural world popped, coming into sharper, more colorful focus.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022

A cyan blue point on a blue light ring shows that the Echo smart speaker is listening.

From The Verge • Oct. 27, 2021

Available in a slew of colors—including red, yellow, cyan blue and gray—this comfortable and relatively low-key pair is fitting for the office or cozying up with Netflix.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2015

The waning glaciers are leaving precarious mountainside lakes of cyan blue water in their wake.

From Slate • May 29, 2013

Cobalt Blue.—A pure blue tending toward cyan blue and of high luminosity; also called Hungary blue, Lethner’s blue, and Paris blue.

From A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma by Munsell, A. H. (Albert Henry)