eggshell blue

eggshell blue (plural eggshell blues)

1. A delicate pale blue colour.

   eggshell blue colour:  

2. Robin's-egg blue.

eggshell blue (not comparable)

1. Of a delicate pale blue colour.
   • 2005, Gareth Roberts, Only Human, page 63:

     The sky was clear and eggshell blue.

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}