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a. (alternative form of steel blue English) n. (context UK dated English) (alternative form of steel blue English)
Usage examples of "steel-blue".
A steel-blue bird chittered from the top of a scrawny pine as the two horses carried their riders downhill and generally westward.
Instead she watched it sway back and forth above the steel-blue broadloom, like the pendulum of an old grandfather clock, ticking off the moments of her sad, stupid existence.
The running sore at the corner of my mouth, the insect bites damasking my flesh, the bruises and abrasions incising their steel-blue intaglios on my shins .
Everywhere about it were bright green reed beds, and everywhere above it flew steel-blue swallows and black-headed gulls, and leaning over it from every bank were the ever-present poplar trees, even this late in the summer still shedding their snowfall of white fluffs, and now and then there would be a visible splash in the water as a fish lunged for one of them.
His complexion was red, and from beneath his straight red eyebrows he surveyed the world with a pair of unblinking, intolerant steel-blue eyes.