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wine-blue

wine-blue adjective: of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine.

Adjective

wine-blue (comparative more wine-blue, superlative most wine-blue)

  1. Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine.
    • Near-synonyms: wine-dark, winelike
    • We trudge on then by the moor path, to the high brow of the wine-blue purple-dark hill, and fling ourselves down there, and dream there and see there a grasshopper, carting back to his home in the hollow, a straw.1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015
    Synonyms:
    wine-dark, winelike
    1. Of a specific color among several that represent red wine.

Noun

wine-blue (countable and uncountable, plural wine-blues)

  1. Any of a range of colours between indigo and purple, like those of some red wines.
    • Mulder and Maumené have given it the name of œnocyan or wine-blue, as its color, when neutral, is blue; the red color of genuine wines is due to the presence of tartaric and acetic acid acting upon the wine-blue.1885, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 26, page 676
    • In this modestly sized canvas you find the wonderful blue colour of the Limfjord — a colour Homer called “wineblue” (oinops).1964, The Limfjord, Its Towns and People, page 153
    1. A specific color among several that represent red wine.

Synonyms of wine-blue

Forms of wine-blue

Adjective
comparativemore wine-blue
superlativemost wine-blue
alternative formwineblue
alternative formwine blue
Noun
pluralwine-blues

Origin of wine-blue

From wine + blue.

Questions about wine-blue

What does wine-blue mean?
Wine-blue means of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine.
What part of speech is wine-blue?
Wine-blue can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near wine-blue in the dictionary

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  2. wine whey
  3. wine, women and song
  4. wine-bibber
  5. wine-bibbers
  6. wine-blue
  7. wine-blues
  8. wine-bottle
  9. wine-bottleful
  10. wine-bottlefuls
  11. wine-bottles

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