Wiktionary
a. Of a bright blue color, with a tint of purple. n. A bright blue color, with a tint of purple.
Wikipedia
Cornflower blue is a shade of medium-to-light blue containing relatively little green compared to blue. This hue was one of the favorites of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, his other most-noted favorite being yellow.
The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue tone.
Usage examples of "cornflower blue".
He had the raven-dark hair and cornflower blue eyes so typical of Eldidd men, but there was nothing typical about his good looks.
Forty-eight that year, she was still a good-looking woman, with gray-streaked raven black hair, large cornflower blue eyes, and the straight-backed posture of one quite at home with ruler-ship.
His straight black hah* was glossy, and his eyes were a bright cornflower blue.
Two desks away, Wheat was talking to a shabby young man in overalls, her cornflower blue eyes big and sympathetic and filled with starlight.
That circle of robin egg blue, winter sky, cornflower blue, looked down at me.
Her mind was still consumed with the tall, dark image of Peter Abdee - the man whom she had looked closely at for the first time tonight, being struck not only by his undeniable good looks but his calm, gentle manner and the boyish mischief shining in his cornflower blue eyes.
Ryan sported tan Dockers and a crisp cotton shirt the exact cornflower blue of his eyes.
He had raven-dark wavy hair, large cornflower blue eyes, and perfect features, his mouth so soft and well formed that it was almost girlish.
The yellow hair the colour of ripening corn, was awry about her shoulders and with the knuckles of one hand she was still rubbing the sleep from eyes of a deep cornflower blue.