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1. datedpoeticsciencesColored like the neck of a peacock: peacock blue.

   2181 Very dark copper red, slightly pavonated Copper Pyrites, in Quartz; from Freiberg. 2182 Very beautifully pavonated Copper Pyrites, with traversing slips of Siderocalcite; from Grosskamsdorf.

   1798, Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten, A Description of the Minerals in the Leskean Museum, page 243

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   She guided me into a courtyard whose thrumming intensity of blue could only have been created by a fusion of hyacinthine and pavonated cobalt exalted by lapis. This hot blue kingdom was planted with orange trees heavy with fruit.

   2010 April 5, Michelle Lovric, The Book of Human Skin, A&C Black, →ISBN

   The icebergs glowed different shades of blue: turquoise, cerulean, azure, pavonated, sapphire, ultramarine. When our Zodiac stopped to allow people to take photographs I just stared at the surreal magnificence of that glittering blue[…]

   2019 May 30, Rosita Boland, Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel, Random House, →ISBN