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Definition of Light-blue
1. Adjective. Of a light shade of blue.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Light-blue
Literary usage of Light-blue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"spike, light blue, the standard with a greenish yellow center: pods oblong, ...
Fls. light blue, smaller than in L. perennis. Columbia river to Yosemite and ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"To be avoided : light blue or medium blue ; light green ; pale violets or violet-
pinks; grays; purple; black; white. Colors to be chosen for black hair, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"White above blue, parti-per-chevron University of Maine Light blue University of
Michigan Maize, ... Light blue, two white chevrons University of Oregon. ..."
4. The American Annual of Photography (1909)
"If objects of various colors are examined, it will be found that a light blue
object has an absorption band in the red, a purple object in the yellow, ..."
5. The Resources of California: Comprising Agriculture, Mining, Geography by John Shertzer Hittell (1869)
"... 1; coarse gray cand and clay, 1; light-blue clay, 11 ; gray sand and clay, 7;
light-blue clay, 15; fine gravel, 1; light-blue clay and gravel, 1? ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"Yet the same difficulty would be experienced in the case of Mars, whose poles
appear light blue, or light green, to many observers ; and the existence of ..."
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