zircon bluenoun & adjective
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the word zircon blue. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
The earliest known use of the word zircon blue is in the 1920s.
OED's earliest evidence for zircon blue is from 1928, in the Chicago Tribune.
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- zircon blue, n. & adj.1928–
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- zirconia, n.1794–
- zirconian, adj.1802–
- zirconic, adj.1804–
- zirconite, n.1806–
- zirconitic, adj.1883–
- zirconium, n.1808–
- zircon-like, adj.1857–
- zircono-, comb. form
- zirconolite, n.1957–
1928–
a. n. A light blue colour like that of some gem-quality zircon; a pigment of this colour b. adj. of this light-blue colour.
1928
Chiffon frocks... In Zircon blue, new wine and black. $97.50.
Chicago Tribune 12 November 11/3 (advertisement)
1930
The smoldering light in her zircon blue eyes, and the straight, stormy line of her red mouth.
Good Housekeeping (U.S. edition) January 30/1
2010
Find the perfect pallet for your personality by choosing from jasper red, zircon blue, ardoise slate, jade green and scapolite gray.
Marketwire (Nexis) 20 April
2019
They are looking to speak to the driver of a zircon blue Jaguar in connection with the crash.
Andover (Hampshire) Advertiser (Nexis) 27 December
A light blue colour; cloth or garments of this colour.
A light-blue or sky-blue colour.
(a) Sky blue, azure (cf. Turkey blue n., turquoise, n. 3); (b) red (cf. Turkey red, n. a).
Originally: the rich blue colour of smalt. Now chiefly: a soft pale shade of blue.
a. adj. Of a light shade of blue, or (formerly) greenish-blue, resembling that adopted as the colours of Eton College; b. n. a light shade of blue…
a. adj. That is of a very pale blue colour; b. n. this colour.
The purple-blue colour of the periwinkle flower.
A pale shade of blue, adopted as the colour of Cambridge University.
a. n. A pale shade of blue; b. adj. of this colour.
A pale shade of blue or greenish-blue.
The colour of the egg of a duck; used attributively. Frequently duck-egg blue, duck's egg blue.
Chiefly U.S. A shade of light blue resembling the colour of periwinkle flowers. Cf. periwinkle, n.¹ 3b.
= pervenche, n. 2 (cf. periwinkle blue n. at periwinkle, n.¹ compounds 2).
A purple-blue colour like that of the periwinkle flower (sense 1). Cf. pervenche, n. 2.
attributive, as harebell blue.
A light shade of blue, the colour of the uniform of the French Army during and after the war of 1914–18; such a uniform; also as adj.
This shade of blue; a garment, etc., in this colour.
a. n. A light blue colour like that of some gem-quality zircon; a pigment of this colour b. adj. of this light-blue colour.
A light or medium blue colour.
Originally published as part of the entry for zircon, n.
zircon, n. was revised in March 2021.
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