pale blue
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- adjective
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azul pálido
- There are high walls made of stone covered with pale blue plaster, narrow streets, and houses built around courtyards.
- pale blue sky
This first sweater I have is a beautiful pale blue sweater.
- This first sweater I have is a beautiful pale blue sweater.
- I had like Navy and pale blue and like grey and white and pink and that kind of thing.
- And in doing that, trying to think of where we were going to put it, it occurred to me how great it would be if we just do the pale blue dot with A twist.
- It'll be a pale blue dot pixel, but the moon's Gray grayness will be intermixed with that pixel.
- They'd see the Earth, as in Carl Sagan's nice phrase, a pale blue dot lying very close in the sky to its star, our sun, and much, much, much fainter.
- We don't actually look that alike, but if you imagine all our component parts, we're just sort of short, pale blue eyed, big eyes, brown haired people.
Examples
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The walls were covered in a pale blue paper with a tiny white design.
Fiction book (1990) -
His lips were pale blue, and there was a slight bluish tinge to his forehead.
Fiction book (1993) -
The Earth, it's a pale blue dot.
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This first sweater I have is a beautiful pale blue sweater.
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Next up guys, I have this absolutely beautiful little pale blue dress from Abercrombie.
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Our Earth, this pale blue dot in the cosmos is a special place.
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It looked very old, the edges torn, the pale blue lines rubbed almost away.
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Caroline wears a pale blue suit, and Dwight looks good in a navy single-breasted suit.
Fiction book (1993) -
A thin face appeared, inquisitive, impertinent, with a lumpy nose, pale blue eyes set at a birdlike slant.
Fiction book (1992) -
The walls were covered in a pale blue paper with a tiny white design.
Synonyms
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A pale shade of blue like the sky on a clear day
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A pale blue color with a slight grey tint
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a light or soft shade of blue' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'pale' (low color intensity) with 'blue' (the color); the modifier–color composition is compositionally predictable. This is a common, cross-linguistic adjectival pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words would reliably infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Pale blue comes from the image of blue mixed with lots of white, making the color pale and faint. So, pale blue means a 'light' or 'soft' shade of blue.