mazarine
Americannoun
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a deep, rich blue.
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a silver strainer fitting over a meat dish and used for draining the water from boiled fish.
Etymology
Origin of mazarine
1665–75; < French, perhaps named after Cardinal Mazarin
Example Sentences
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In January, White was in the midst of his most ambitious reintroduction yet: to return the mazarine blue to Britain.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020
I planned to meet White again in the summer, to follow the release of his 2020 crop of mazarine blues on to a secret site in Lincolnshire.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020
Will he see mazarine blues here in a year’s time?
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020
He looked relieved once the mazarine blues had flown free.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020
It is explained that this was a kind of nickname given to the common councilmen, on account of their wearing mazarine blue silk gowns.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
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