ultramarine
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- noun
- /ˌʌltrəˈmɛrɪn/
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ultramar
- Since classical times, it had been usual for the patron to provide the most expensive and brightest pigments, such as ultramarine, a practice that survived occasionally as late as the eighteenth century.
- ultramarine blue
- French ultramarine
- ultramarine, alizarin
Examples
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In the evenings, hundreds of lit candles in stained-glass cups in hanging silver lamps; during the day (at the right moment), there were magenta and ultramarine, verdigris and amber shadows on the north wall.
Fiction book (2000) -
The artist used ultramarine to create the vibrant sky in her painting.
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The small, high window is (Jessy now tells me) "purplish ultramarine."
Academic text (1998) -
Al Azarian Crimson, titanium white, ultramarine blue, phthalo blue, cadmium yellow light, the colors aren't exactly the same.
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Instead of high-quality, expensive pigments like ultramarine, Mason tells us, Reynolds preferred cheaper, industrially enhanced substitutes such as smalt.
Academic text (2015) -
Many painters prefer ultramarine for its rich and intense hue.
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She mixed ultramarine with white to achieve a lighter shade for the ocean water.
Synonyms
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A deep bright blue paint color first made from a stone called lapis lazuli and now often made artificially
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A blue color with a little purple
A bright deep blue colour used for paint and cloth
A bright deep blue colour used in paint and art
An intense blue pigment made by people for use in painting
A greenish-blue color used in paint and pottery made from cobalt
Compounds
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A deep bright blue paint color first made from a stone called lapis lazuli and now often made artificially
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Etymology
Ultramarine comes from the parts ultra 'beyond' and marine 'sea' because the pure blue pigment was once brought from far across the sea from mines in Asia. So ultramarine is the deep, brilliant blue color or the pigment used to make that color.