ultramarine
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˌʌl.tɹə.məˈɹiːn/
Noun

ultramarine

  1. A brilliant blue pigment that is either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically; traditionally made from ground-up lapis lazuli.
  2. A brilliant pure dark blue or slightly purplish colour.
     
Translations
  • French: outremer
  • German: Ultramarinblau, Königsblau
  • Italian: ultramarino
  • Russian: ультрамари́н
Translations
  • French: outremer
  • German: Ultramarinblau
  • Italian: blu oltremare
  • Russian: ультрамари́н
  • Spanish: azul ultramarino, azul de ultramar, azul ultramaro
Adjective

ultramarine

  1. Of a brilliant blue colour.
  2. Beyond the sea.
    • 1769, Edmund Burke, Observations on a Late State of the Nation, fourth edition, London: J. Dodsley, pages 10–11 ↗:
      If the war is carried on in the colonies, he [George Grenville] tells them that the loſs of her [France’s] ultramarine dominions leſſens her expences, and enſures her remittances […]
Translations
  • French: outremer
  • German: ultramarinblau
  • Italian: oltremarino



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