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形容詞

sky blue (comparative more sky blue, superlative most sky blue)

1. Of a vibrant light blue colour, like that of the sky on a fine day.

   Synonym: cerulean

   • 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:

     “Hi! Kostandi!” called out an old sailor in a sky-blue cloak. “How are things with you?”

名詞

sky blue (countable and uncountable, plural sky blues)

1. A vibrant light blue colour, like that of the sky on a fine day.

   sky blue:  

2. (slang, obsolete) Milk excessively diluted with water, or from which the cream was too closely skimmed.
   • 1800, Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer's Boy:

     Hence, Suffolk dairy wives run mad for cream,
     And leave their milk with nothing but the name;
     Its name derision and reproach pursue,
     And strangers tell of three-times-skimm'd sky-blue.

   • 1836, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, The Poor Rich Man, and the Rich Poor Man:

     To be sure, your Aunt Betsey lives in a brick house, and has a sight of furniture, […] yet she has all her bread to buy by the loaf, and the milk is sky-blue; as to cream, I don't believe they ever heard on't.

参考

参照

• (diluted milk): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Further reading

• sky blue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• blue sky, blue-sky

名詞

sky-blue (countable and uncountable, plural sky-blues)

1. Alternative form of sky blue
   • 1827 (originally 1755?), Connoisseur, page=223:

     […] every petty chandler's shop will sell you Sky-blue, and every night-cellar furnish you with Holland tape, three yards a penny.

アナグラム

• blue sky, blue-sky