blue-red
English
Etymology
From blue + red. Compare Old English blēorēad (“blue-red, purple”).
Adjective
blue-red (comparative more blue-red, superlative most blue-red)
- (colour) Of a colour between blue and red; purple.
- 1840, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe's Theory of Colours:
- This unquiet feeling increases as the hue progresses, and it may be safely assumed, that a carpet of a perfectly pure deep blue-red [transl. Blaurot] would be intolerable.
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Related terms
- yellow-red
Anagrams
- brûléed, reblued