Ultramarine

Definition of ultramarine:

part of speech: noun

The most beautiful and durable sky- blue color, so called either from its intense blue, or from the lapis lazuli, from which it is made, being brought from Asia, beyond the sea.

part of speech: adjective

Situated beyond the sea.

part of speech: noun

A beautiful blue coloring matter made from lapis lazuli.

Usage examples for ultramarine:

• So they displayed her in this, for the first dress, before King Shahzeman, who rejoiced in her and well- nigh took leave of his wits for longing and amorous desire; yea, he was distraught with love for her, whenas he saw her, for, indeed, she was as saith of her one of her describers in the following verses: She comes in a robe the colour of ultramarine Blue as the stainless sky, unflecked with white; I view her with yearning eyes and she seems to me A moon of the summer, set in a winter's night. "Tales from the Arabic Volume 3", John Payne.

• Miss Howard had put out the entire procession by not listening to his instructions; Miss Adair, although she was playing the Brigand of the Ultramarine Mountains, had threatened to throw up her part if she were not allowed to wear her diamond ear- rings. "A Mummer's Wife", George Moore.

• The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine "Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman", Thomas Hardy.

• 25 " 20 " ultramarine "The Postage Stamp in War", Fred. J. Melville.