Word.ws English Dictionary

Saunders blue

Saunders blue noun: a pigment prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine.

Noun

Saunders blue (uncountable)

  1. A pigment prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine.
  2. A blue pigment prepared from copper carbonate.

Origin of Saunders blue

Corrupted from French cendres bleues (“blue ashes”)

Questions about Saunders blue

What does Saunders blue mean?
Saunders blue means a pigment prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine.
What part of speech is Saunders blue?
Saunders blue is a noun.

Words near Saunders blue in the dictionary

  1. saunaing
  2. saunalike
  3. saunas
  4. Saundby
  5. saunders
  6. Saunders blue
  7. Saunders County
  8. Saundersfoot
  9. saundersioside
  10. Saunderson
  11. Saunderstown

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Saunders blue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Saunders blue.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/saunders_blue. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.