ultramarine
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌʌl.tɹə.məˈɹiːn/
ultramarine
- A brilliant blue pigment that is either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically; traditionally made from ground-up lapis lazuli.
- A brilliant pure dark blue or slightly purplish colour.
- French: outremer
- German: Ultramarinblau, Königsblau
- Italian: ultramarino
- Russian: ультрамари́н
- French: outremer
- German: Ultramarinblau
- Italian: blu oltremare
- Russian: ультрамари́н
- Spanish: azul ultramarino, azul de ultramar, azul ultramaro
ultramarine
- Of a brilliant blue colour.
- 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 […]
- If the war is carried on in the colonies, he
- 1769, Edmund Burke, Observations on a Late State of the Nation, fourth edition, London: J. Dodsley, pages 10–11 ↗:
- French: outremer
- German: ultramarinblau
- Italian: oltremarino
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