Yale blue en · NOUN
Etymology
From Yale University, which uses the color.
Meanings
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A dark azure color.
While today the courts on the fifth floor sport a fresh Yale Blue coat of paint and glass backboards, in the 1970s they were drafty, completely wooden and nearly uninhabitable in the hotter months.
2020 March 4, Eamonn Smith, “Yale faculty keep fit, form bonds on the hardwood”, in The Yale News, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2020:The 49-year-old put on an elegant display in a two-toned blue, one-shoulder gown. With a maya blue bodice and yale blue skirt, the pleated dress featured a bow like wrap on her left shoulder.
2019 September 7, Kellie Chudzinski, “Heather Graham cuts an elegant style in a one shoulder blue gown at the TIFF premiere of her film The Rest of Us”, in Daily Mail:Neither Harvard crimson nor Yale blue courses through my veins — I am an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — but I was at Harvard for the academic year 1968-69 on a Nieman Fellowship, awarded each year to a dozen American journalists in the hope that using the university’s vast resources might help them improve their professional skills.
2018 November 21, “A spectacular Harvard-Yale football game that lifted spirits in the tragic year of 1968”, in The Washington Post:You could call the shade Yale blue, presidential blue, or even a dark steel blue. Regardless, it conveyed the right amount of cheeriness for the occasion and reverence for a historic moment in the British royal family's history.
2017 November 27, Megan Gustashaw, “Prince Harry’s Engagement Suit Is Just What You Should Wear on Your Big Day”, in GQ:But Yale had certain advantages. Its nonprofit status sheltered it from taxes on income. It could access top outside fund managers. It had alumni in high places in business and finance who, like Swensen, bled Yale blue.
2019 September 11, Drake Bennett, Janet Lorin, Michael McDonald, “How David Swensen Made Yale Fabulously Rich”, in Bloomberg News:For a talented senior class, the weekend marks the final hurrah in Yale blue. Trumbull’s Simon Whiteman, first baseman Griffin Dey and pitcher Scott Politz should all be selected in next month’s Major League Baseball draft.
2019 May 8, Chip Malafronte, “Yale enters weekend playing for pride”, in New Haven Register: