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UK
/sˈɛɹuːlˌiən/
]
ADJECTIVE
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of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky
October's bright blue weather
October's bright blue weather
NOUN
- a light shade of blue
How To Use cerulean In A Sentence
- I grind pigments using a mortar and pestle the way painters used to ground lapis lazuli, burnt sienna, and cerulean blue centuries ago. The Memory Palace
- Mist brooded on the cerulean-green sea like incandescent wraiths, yet the sky was a faint blush of cerulean, and the diluted sun was indolently mountaineering the stairway into the heavens.
- At eventide, the cerulean skies assumed a deeper tone of velvety purple on which was displayed the rare jewels of the heavenly caskets.
- She is painted a rich cerulean blue underneath, with a thin buff stripe dividing this from the deep maroon paint of the gunwales. TROPIC OF NIGHT
- She had turned to find a pair of clear, dark, cerulean blue eyes looking into her own amethyst ones from a face nearly as pale as her own.
- Deep electric blue eyes; cerulean orbs, held him rooted to the spot.
- Cora was a short and unnaturally skinny pale girl with silvery blonde hair and cerulean blue eyes.
- The painting depicts a calm, cerulean blue crater lake, ringed by craggy rock that flickers from lavender to cream, ocher to gray.
- Here's a mental exercise: picture a tropical paradise lost in an endless expanse of cerulean ocean.
- Then the cobaltic reached directly into the cerulean's mouth orifice. Analog Science Fiction and Fact