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butcher blue

butcher blue noun: navy blue.

Noun

butcher blue (uncountable)

  1. navy blue
    • She was dressed in a tailor-made coat and skirt of butcher blue, and wore a Tam o'Shanter of the same colour.1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major

Origin of butcher blue

A traditional colour for butchers' aprons; see butcher stripes.

Questions about butcher blue

What does butcher blue mean?
Butcher blue means navy blue.
What part of speech is butcher blue?
Butcher blue is a noun.

Words near butcher blue in the dictionary

  1. butcher
  2. butcher bird
  3. butcher birds
  4. butcher block
  5. butcher blocks
  6. butcher blue
  7. butcher boy
  8. butcher knife
  9. butcher knives
  10. butcher paper
  11. butcher papers

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