Saunders blue
English
editEtymology
editCorrupted from French cendres bleues, blue ashes.
Noun
edit- A pigment prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine.
- A blue pigment prepared from carbonate of copper.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Saunders blue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)