turquoise blue

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a light greenish-blue color that is somewhat paler and bluer than typical turquoise

   A band of turquoise blue separated the pale sky from the darker sea.

2. 2
   adj

   having a light greenish-blue color resembling a blue shade of turquoise

   The lagoon looked turquoise-blue in the noon sunlight.

A lexicalized shade name formed from turquoise and blue, recorded in English by the end of the eighteenth century. Turquoise came through French turquoise, shortened from pierre turquoise, 'Turkish stone,' because the Persian gemstone reached Europe through Turkey. The compound distinguishes a paler, bluer shade from average turquoise.

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