Roslyn blue

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Roslyn blue (uncountable)

  1. A purplish-blue color.
    • 1921, Bulletin of the Garden Club of America, numbers 1-8, page 141:
      My list of Hyacinths is too incomplete even to mention, but I have found that some unnamed varieties in my garden were a soft bluish-violet, Wistaria violet, Forget-me-not blue, and deep Roslyn blue.