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ultramarine
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "blue pigment made from lapis lazuli," from Medieval Latin ultramarinus , literally "beyond the sea," from ultra- "beyond" + marinus "of the sea" (see marine (adj.)). Said to be so called because the mineral was imported from Asia.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was gliding softly through the water towards the deep ultramarine stain the sloop made in the brimming blackness all around. ▪ The mass effect was of a light but most brilliant ultramarine .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ultramarine is a deep blue color and a pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli into a powder. The name comes from the Latin ultramarinus , literally "beyond the sea", because the pigment was imported into Europe from mines in Afghanistan ...
Usage examples of ultramarine.
To look at them was to marvel at the colours, the bands of purple and orchid pink, the flaming crimson whorls, the unique striature of diamond blue or lavender or ultramarine that marked each ball of light as different from the others.
Virgin, where she looked now, the highlights were not opaque colors on the surface, but from the light underpainting tinted with ultramarine.
Theo asked Père Tanguy to send Vincent the three chromes, the malachite, the vermilion, the orange lead, the cobalt, and the ultramarine.
But his palette remained crowded with dabs and mixtures of American Vermilion, Cadmium Yellow, Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber, and Ivory Black.
But his palette remained crowded with dabs and mixtures of American Venuilion, Cadmium Yellow, Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber, and Ivory Black.
Such attributes were implicit in the very fabric of existence, just as the sun Methuen was unalterably pink and the sky immutably ultramarine.
She sat in a shadowy puddle of ultramarine light from a single neon lamp, a gold freeform.
Rose-Petal Pink, Crimson Lake, Sheer Mist, Burnt Umber, Ripe Plum, Indigo, Ultramarine –.
Beyond that the tints darkened into fine gradations of ultramarine, and faded into vague obscurity.
In point of fact, while the Uldra men, with their tall nervous physiques, gray skins dyed ultramarine blue and aquiline features, were in general personable, the same could not be said for the women.
His fingers itched to touch her nipples, although one of the nipples was gold oxide and the other mostly french ultramarine blue.
The sky is clear ultramarine blue and the snow over the meadow reflects it back lighter and the two blues meet in the dark line of trees that is the beginning of the woods.
Roth lets the engine roar carry him skyward, seeing Baikonur fall far below like a snowy chessboard, watching Florida fall below like a trailing finger and seeing the green of the coastal waters give way to the ultramarine blue depths of the deeper sea.
Abruptly, the sky above the headquarters stratotower darkened to ultramarine blue and the structures and landing pads surrounding it faded into ghostly insubstantiality.
Pitt turned and stared out of the cockpit bubble at the dark ultramarine blue that stretched almost unripPled to the south.