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wine-blue en · ADJ

Etymology

From wine + blue.

Meanings

1. Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine.
   • He'd love to sip a pint in a decent pub who never will, though down by wineblue Black Sea . . . ah! 1984, Christopher Pollnitz, Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems, page 175:
   • 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. 1997, Jeffrey Carson, Poems, 1974-1996, page 7:
   • 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. 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
   • 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 […] 2002, Astrid Sæther, Ibsen and the Arts, page 26:
   • Near-synonyms: wine-dark, winelike
   • Now I have come in as you see, with my ship and companions sailing over the wine-blue water to men of alien language. 2011, Henry Power, Homer's 'Odyssey':
   • Beside the wineblue sea, magnificent silver tanks big as a mountain gleamed in the sun. 1988, E. C. Curtsinger, Towers, Crosses, page 255:
2. Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine. ▸ Of a specific color among several that represent red wine.

Forms

Coordinates

wine-dark · vinaceous

Hypernyms

vinous · vinous · vinaceous · vinaceous

Synonyms

wine-dark · winelike · wine-dark · winelike

wine-blue en · NOUN

Etymology

From wine + blue.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Any of a range of colours between indigo and purple, like those of some red wines.
   • 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. 1885, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 26, page 676:
   • In this modestly sized canvas you find the wonderful blue colour of the Limfjord — a colour Homer called “wineblue” (oinops). 1964, The Limfjord, Its Towns and People, page 153:
2. (countable, uncountable) Any of a range of colours between indigo and purple, like those of some red wines. ▸ A specific color among several that represent red wine.

Forms

Coordinates

wine-dark · vinaceous