berry blue

plural berry blues

1. countableuncountableA purplish-blue color resembling that of blueberries

   yarn credit: Caron “Simply Quick,” 100% acrylic (85 grams, 50 yes); color: #15 Berry Blue.

   2007, Alicia Bergin, Crochet to Go, Chronicle Books, page 29

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   “It's good coffee, isn't it?” says Martin, and he's got good taste, he drinks huckleberry coffee from Montana, he drinks bits of morning berry blue in his coffee as if they're flecks from the Big Sky itself.

   2007, Jason Murk, Tokharian Tales, page 248

   Two blocks away from the 5-mile-long Industrial Canal that links Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi River, a cluster of new, candy-colored homes—lemon yellow, tangerine, berry blue—on 8-foot stilts rises up from narrow grassy lots, adorning the scarred landscape like jewels in ash.

   2009, Amanda Little, Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells---Our Ride to the Renewable Future, page 350

1. not comparableOf a purplish-blue colour resembling that of blueberries.

   [recipe title] Old South Berry Blue Pie 4 cups fresh blueberries, rinsed

   2005, Louis Van Dyke, The Blue Willow Inn Bible of Southern Cooking: Over 600 Essential Recipes, Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, page 338

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   As Hannah turned sharply to make her way back to her brother’s home, a corner of her berry-blue cloak reversed in the breeze, showing a flash of poppy-red.

   2007, M. M. Etheridge, Hannah: Woman in Red, Lulu, page 19

   Or the wonderment in not 1 but 2 rainbows as they cap off a berry blue sky now void of thick heavy rain clouds.

   2010, Adriann Bautista, Sanctuary of Snow, page 157

   The washstand had white linen towels and a berry blue pitcher and basin.

   2010, A LaFaye, Nissa's Place, page 132

   People get nervous about poison, especially parents, but the truth is that rat poison is all over every building and street in Manhattan. Anything you see that resembles berry blue Pop Rocks or green kibble, you know rats have been spotted nearby.

   2010, Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan, The Strain, page 325

   Cherry hesitantly pulls a vitaminwater bottle from her unzipped bag. [. . .] I wave off the water, which is berry blue and looks heavenly.

   2011, Jon Reiner, The Man Who Couldn’t Eat: A Memoir, New York: Gallery Books, page 188