peacock blue

peacock blue (countable and uncountable, plural peacock blues)

1. A brilliant, dark blue-green colour, like the plumage of a peacock.

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peacock blue (not comparable)

1. Of a brilliant blue-green colour.
   • 1980 April 19, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

     Jo read the following words, inscribed in peacock blue ink, in a near cursive hand.

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}