wineblue
English
Alternative forms
- wine-blue, wine blue
Etymology
From wine + blue.
Adjective
wineblue (comparative more wineblue, superlative most wineblue)
- Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple
- 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando:
- 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.
- 1984, Christopher Pollnitz, Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems, page 175:
- He'd love to sip a pint in a decent pub who never will, though down by wineblue Black Sea . . . ah!
- 1988, E. C. Curtsinger, Towers, Crosses, page 255:
- Beside the wineblue sea, magnificent silver tanks big as a mountain gleamed in the sun.
- 1997, Jeffrey Carson, Poems, 1974-1996, page 7:
- 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.
- 2002, Astrid Sæther, Ibsen and the Arts, page 26:
- 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 […]
- 2011, Henry Power, Homer's 'Odyssey':
- Now I have come in as you see, with my ship and companions sailing over the wine-blue water to men of alien language.
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Noun
wineblue (plural wineblues)
- A colour between indigo and purple
- 1885, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 26, page 676:
- 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.
- 1964, The Limfjord, Its Towns and People, page 153:
- In this modestly sized canvas you find the wonderful blue colour of the Limfjord — a colour Homer called “wineblue” (oinops).
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