petrol blue
English
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Noun
[edit]Usage notes
[edit]- Many people erroneously believe that this is a misspelling of petrel blue, and that the term refers to the sea bird. However, the OED gives only this spelling. The term may originally have pertained to petrol-derived compounds such as paraffin, which is often coloured blue.
Adjective
[edit]See also
[edit]- Alice blue
- aqua
- aquamarine
- azure
- baby blue
- beryl
- bice
- bice blue
- blueberry
- blue green
- blue violet
- cadet blue
- Cambridge blue
- cerulean
- cobalt blue
- Copenhagen blue
- cornflower
- cornflower blue
- cyan
- dark blue
- Dodger blue
- duck-egg blue
- eggshell blue
- electric blue
- gentian blue
- ice blue
- lapis lazuli
- light blue
- lovat
- mazarine
- midnight blue
- navy
- Nile blue
- Oxford blue
- peacock blue
- petrol blue
- powder blue
- Prussian blue
- robin's-egg blue
- royal blue
- sapphire
- saxe blue
- sky blue
- slate blue
- teal
- turquoise
- ultramarine
- Wedgwood blue
- zaffre