cornflower blue
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- noun
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- Gloria Ekhart's generous mouth and cornflower-blue eyes were familiar to millions who had seen her movies and watched her popular sitcom on TV.
- cornflower blue eyes
- hair in cornflower blue
- wearing cornflower blue
Examples
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He was wearing his cornflower-blue tie.
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But she'd painted the kitchen and living room walls pale yellow and then painted the trim on each window a different color: a deep cornflower blue, an egg-yolk yellow, and an orange the color of apricots—the colors of tropical fruit Lifesavers.
Fiction book (1996) -
Can I get the icon in cornflower blue?
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Her cornflower blue eyes looked so happy when she laughed that they nearly seemed to be laughing themselves.
Fiction book (1993) -
In the mirror on the ceiling were the man's shining blue eyes; a wonderfully shining cornflower blue, thought the woman.
Fiction book (2002) -
A good-looking young woman sat at the desk: shoulder-length sandy hair, cornflower blue eyes, broad swimmer's shoulders.
Fiction book (2001) -
May days that come just before summer's heat, a day with a shimmering cornflower-blue sky and not a whiff of the refineries down the coast, a day for feeling young in my little spot of heaven on planet Earth.
Fiction book (2001) -
Laura has a bunch of flowers in her hand—that's just a cover for her real purpose in coming here—and she's wearing a cornflower-blue raincoat.
Fiction book (1996) -
Lisette froze in the middle of that charming childlike stretch and squeak with which she wakes herself and looked out at the cat with her wide cornflower-blue eyes.
Fiction book (1994) -
I decided to paint the bathroom cornflower blue to create a calming atmosphere.
Synonyms
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The color between green and violet like a clear sky
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A light blue like the clear sky on a sunny day
A bright blue color like a cornflower
How Blue
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly deducible from combining 'cornflower' (a plant noted for blue blossoms) with 'blue' — it names the shade of blue characteristic of the flower. Color names formed from a source noun + a color adjective are a productive, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Cornflower blue comes from the bright blue flower called the cornflower, which often grew in grain fields. People used the flower's clear, soft blue as the model, so the name now means 'a medium-to-light blue'.