blue-red
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blue-red
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From blue + red. Compare Old English blēorēad (“blue-red, purple”).
adjective more blue-red · most blue-red
- Of a colour between blue and red; purple or crimson. This unquiet feeling increases as the hue progresses, and it may be safely assumed, that a carpet of a perfectly pure deep blue-red [translating Blaurot] would be intolerable.
- Consisting of the colours blue and red individually. a blue-red cock (rooster)
noun blue-reds
- A colour between blue and red; purple or crimson. Let us suppose a red represented by the equivalent number, five, with one part of blue added to it, thus causing it to be a blue-red or crimson.
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