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ultramarines

ultramarines is the plural of ultramarine.

Meaning of ultramarine

Noun

ultramarine (countable and uncountable, plural ultramarines)

  1. In full ultramarine blue: a brilliant blue pigment traditionally made from ground-up lapis lazuli, and now usually either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically.
  2. A brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour like that of the pigment.
    • The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter II, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The...

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Questions about ultramarines

What is ultramarines the plural of?
Ultramarines is the plural of ultramarine.

Words near ultramarines in the dictionary

  1. ultramarathonists
  2. ultramarathons
  3. ultramarine
  4. ultramarine ash
  5. ultramarine ashes
  6. ultramarines
  7. ultramasculine
  8. ultramasculinity
  9. ultramassive
  10. ultramaternal
  11. ultramatricial

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