wine-blue

comparative more wine-blue · superlative most wine-blue · alternative wineblue · alternative wine blue

1. Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine.

   Near-synonyms: wine-dark, winelike

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   We trudge on then by the moor path, to the high brow of the wine-blue purple-dark hill, and fling ourselves down there, and dream there and see there a grasshopper, carting back to his home in the hollow, a straw.

   1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015

   He'd love to sip a pint in a decent pub who never will, though down by wineblue Black Sea . . . ah!

   1984, Christopher Pollnitz, Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems, page 175

   Beside the wineblue sea, magnificent silver tanks big as a mountain gleamed in the sun.

   1988, E. C. Curtsinger, Towers, Crosses, page 255

   And the sea, as you row, allures like a woman: Rose at dawn, wineblue at noon, gold at dusk, More of a drug than lotos-syrup.

   1997, Jeffrey Carson, Poems, 1974-1996, page 7

   The sun that coloured Lissa's wineblue depths That tanned Porta Pia's red pikes And chased into the dungeons the creep of the Vatican […]

   2002, Astrid Sæther, Ibsen and the Arts, page 26

   Synonyms: wine-dark, winelike

   1. Of a specific color among several that represent red wine.

      Synonyms: wine-dark, winelike

plural wine-blues · alternative wineblue · alternative wine blue

1. countableuncountableAny of a range of colours between indigo and purple, like those of some red wines.

   In this modestly sized canvas you find the wonderful blue colour of the Limfjord — a colour Homer called “wineblue” (oinops).

   1964, The Limfjord, Its Towns and People, page 153

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   Mulder and Maumené have given it the name of œnocyan or wine-blue, as its color, when neutral, is blue; the red color of genuine wines is due to the presence of tartaric and acetic acid acting upon the wine-blue.

   1885, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 26, page 676

   1. countableuncountableA specific color among several that represent red wine.