Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wine-blue

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.59 in modern English

Syllables: wine-blue
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine.

adj

Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine.

noun

Any of a range of colours between indigo and purple, like those of some red wines.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Any of a range of colours between indigo and purple, like those of some red wines.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Near-synonyms: wine-dark, winelike"
"We trudge on then by the moor path, to the high brow of the wine-blue purple-dark hill, and fling ourselves down there, and dream there and see there a grasshopper, carting back to his home in the hollow, a straw."
"He'd love to sip a pint in a decent pub who never will, though down by wineblue Black Sea . . . ah!"
"Beside the wineblue sea, magnificent silver tanks big as a mountain gleamed in the sun."
"And the sea, as you row, allures like a woman: Rose at dawn, wineblue at noon, gold at dusk, More of a drug than lotos-syrup."
"The sun that coloured Lissa's wineblue depths That tanned Porta Pia's red pikes And chased into the dungeons the creep of the Vatican […]"

Etymology

From wine + blue.

Usage

Inflected Forms

more wine-blue (comparative) most wine-blue (superlative) wineblue (alternative) wine blue (alternative) wine-blues (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

vinaceous wine-dark

Synonyms

wine-dark winelike

Questions

What does wine-blue mean?: Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine.
Where does wine-blue come from?: From wine + blue.

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