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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sky-blue
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A dripping sky-blue shutter or the red flowers of a flame-of-the-forest tree were images exploding on the vision after blindness.
▪ He's wearing a knife-creased, sky-blue seersucker, safari-style suit.
▪ Inside their front door the walls are covered with sky-blue fur then, further on, with reflecting silver paper.
▪ No twinkling sky-blue eyes to match a sky-blue uniform.
▪ The sky-blue teapot held everything together.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sky-blue

Sky-blue \Sky"-blue\, a. Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone.
--Wordsworth.

Wiktionary
sky-blue

a. (alternative form of sky blue English)

WordNet
sky-blue
  1. adj. of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; "October's bright blue weather" [syn: azure, cerulean, bright blue]

  2. n. a light shade of blue [syn: azure, cerulean, sapphire, lazuline]

Usage examples of "sky-blue".

Her friend Miss Chadwick wore a sky-blue jaconet gown with an ermine tippet, and a white satin bonnet with blue ruching and a large blue bow tied off to one side of her heart-shaped face.

Inside it stood a slimmer, younger Sikh in beautifully laundered salwaartrousers and long, frock-like kameez,who bowed his snug sky-blue turban in greeting.

Ten minutes later, Sebastian stood self-consciously in the centre of the rondavel while Flynn and Mohammed circled him slowly, exclaiming with delight and self congratulation Below the massive helmet, which was now propped high with a wad of cloth between steel and scalp, Sebastian was dressed in the sky-blue tunic and riding breeches.

The other was attired in a sky-blue gown with a tiny, matching hat perched on an elaborate upsweep of blond curls.

His faded, sky-blue military coat might have once graced a Polish officer of wide girth, but it now hung open to accommodate the broad chest of its present owner.

The presidial troops were highly visible in their white and sky-blue uniforms.

Nearly half were women, the men as short as the women for the most part and thin if taller, and none carried a sword, but they all wore close-fitting coats of sky-blue and each had a pair of knives in scabbards sewn to their snug boots.

At that moment, an open sky-blue and glistening black Rolls-Royce tourer flashed across the front of the Hump.

Anyone sharp-eyed enough to have caught sight of the occupants of the Mercedes that evening as it sped through the centre of Fettlesham in the direction of Fettlesham Royal Infirmary would have thought they were hallucinating: an ageing German admiral with a handlebar moustache was at the wheel of the car, a heavily bemedalled SS officer was in the passenger seat, and an overweight nun with crimson lips and sky-blue eye-shadow was sitting in the back gesticulating.

Nearly half were women, the men as short as the women for the most part and thin if taller, and none carried a sword, but they all wore close-fitting coats of sky-blue and each had a pair of knives in scabbards sewn to their snug boots.

A pretty lass, Viviana was clad in a houppelande of sky-blue velvet, with a girdle of stiffened wigan.

The name of the glorious hetman, who had almost destroyed Peter the Great at the battle of Poltava, glittered in gold letters on a sky-blue silk standard.

UFO reveries, saw them clearly any number of times, though she got teased, popping in and out of the sky-blue Rayleigh scattering as if through a perfectly elastic sheet, advance units for some other force, some pitiless advent.

The thin sky-blue potsherds under our feet are First Empire, the thick red ones are from the conquerors.

His tail between his legs, he slunk back to the Food-Mart, just in time to see an attendant in a sky-blue uniform straining as he shoved the whole line of trolleys in through the doors of the Food-Mart.