Tiffany blue
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- noun
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azul Tiffany
Examples
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They are Tiffany blue and they look very like chic.
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She painted her bedroom walls in a beautiful shade of Tiffany blue.
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The wedding decorations featured Tiffany blue table settings and floral arrangements.
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He received a special gift wrapped in a classic Tiffany blue box.
Synonyms
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A light blue like a cornflower with little green
How Blue
Surface Forms
Morphology
Tiffany + blue
The element 'blue' clearly signals a colour, so a learner who knows the word will infer this is a kind of blue; however 'Tiffany' is a proper name/brand that does not itself communicate the exact hue or cultural association. Because knowing the constituents yields a partial but not full understanding (you can guess it's a specific blue but not the precise shade or brand connotations), this is best classed as semi-transparent.
Etymology
Tiffany blue comes from the famous jewelry shop Tiffany & Co., which used a special pale blue on its small gift boxes long ago. Those blue boxes became a strong image of 'luxury' and style, so today Tiffany blue means that exact light blue and a sign of elegance.