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Definition of bleu outremer in French English dictionary
- {n} ultramarine
- a brilliant pure dark blue or slightly purplish colour
ultramarine colour:.
- {a} foreign, blue
- {n} a very fine blue
- Ultramarine is used to describe things that are very bright blue in colour. an ultramarine sky. a very bright blue colour (ultramarinus ; because the substance it was made from was originally brought from Asia)
- Situated or being beyond the sea
- of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color
- a brilliant pure blue or slightly purplish colour
- a brilliant blue pigment that is either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically
- having a brilliant blue colour
- blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli
- A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion
- {s} beyond the sea; having the color of a blue pigment from lapis lazuli
- vivid blue to purple-blue
- Also used adjectively
- vivid blue to purple-blue blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color
- {i} blue pigment; deep blue color