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wine-blues

wine-blues is the plural of wine-blue.

Meaning of wine-blue

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
    1. A specific color among several that represent red wine.

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Questions about wine-blues

What is wine-blues the plural of?
Wine-blues is the plural of wine-blue.

Words near wine-blues in the dictionary

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  3. wine-bibber
  4. wine-bibbers
  5. wine-blue
  6. wine-blues
  7. wine-bottle
  8. wine-bottleful
  9. wine-bottlefuls
  10. wine-bottles
  11. wine-colored

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