duck-egg blue

plural duck-egg blues · alternative duck's-egg blue

1. A pale greenish blue colour, like that of some duck eggs.

comparative more duck-egg blue · superlative most duck-egg blue · alternative duck's-egg blue

1. Of a pale greenish blue colour, like that of some duck eggs.

   The walls were duck's-egg blue and in the centre of each was a colour print of tropical flowers in a bamboo frame.

   1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 126