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Peacock-blue   Listen
adjective
peacock-blue  adj.  A bright greenish blue.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Peacock-blue" Quotes from Famous Books



... department-store advertisements, of college yells, of chautauqual oratory, of smoke-room anecdote—and arranges them in mosaics that glitter with an almost fabulous light. He knows where a red noun should go, and where a peacock-blue verb, and where an adjective as darkly purple as a grape. He is an imagist in prose. You may like his story and you may not like it, but if you don't like the way he tells it then there is something the matter with your ears. As for me, his experiments with words caress me as I am caressed ...
— The Line of Love - Dizain des Mariages • James Branch Cabell



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