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Color:
Cambridge blue


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Colors with the same hue:
Evergreen
Medium green
Salem
Feldgrau
Amazon
Sea green
GO green
Island Green
Shamrock
Soft Green
Similar colors:
Ash gray
Eton blue
Light Sage
Morning blue
Pewter
Pallid White
Oxley
Laurel
Asparagus
Xanadu
Celadon
Gun
Serene Green
Opal
Dew
Smoke
Rosemary
Seafoam
Patina
Forest green 
Honeydew
Russian green
Misty Blue
Tea
Celery
Soft Green
Faded Green
Chameleon
Chromium
Nyanza
Words evoked by this color:
cambridge,  illusory,  diaphanous,  iridescent,  illusive,  illusion,  chimerical,  chagrined,  haggard,  emaciated,  ailing,  consumptive,  leached,  starved,  remains,  relinquished,  shrunken,  emaciate,  greyish,  ashgate,  repentant,  renunciation,  aghast,  mortified,  tobacco,  gaunt,  cremated,  ash,  disintegrating,  penitence,  penitent,  repentance,  penitential,  mortification,  moribund,  extinct,  exile,  exiled,  dormant,  fallout,  eton,  glissando,  implied,  implicit,  antimony,  nitride,  retiring,  androgen,  screwing,  purr
Literary analysis:
Literary authors have often invoked Cambridge blue as a distinctive, refined hue that lends both visual charm and subtle symbolism to their descriptions. In some passages it colors garments and accessories, as when a character's coat is described as having an inside layer of Cambridge blue ([1]) or when a silk umbrella, emblematic of understated elegance, is noted in that very shade ([2]). The color also sets the tone of an atmosphere—a room may be imbued with a languid blend of Cambridge blue and coffee hue ([3]), or entire groups are identified by the color they wear ([4], [5], [6]). Even decorative details, like unobtrusive accents on a well-curated outfit ([7]) or the evocative binding force in a poetic call to create ([8]), highlight the hue’s capacity to simultaneously ground a scene in realism and elevate it to a symbol of cultivated taste.
  1. How lovely she looked with her outside varnish and her internal coat of Cambridge blue!
    — from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton
  2. Gribble junior had brought a Cambridge blue-silk umbrella with him, which, however, he did not open on the journey.
    — from London's Heart: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
  3. Now all was merged in a general stagnation of Cambridge blue and coffee colour.
    — from Coquette by Frank Swinnerton
  4. Then Pallidulus Bargaeus, the mightiest of our crew, Than whom no better oarsman ever wore the Cambridge blue.
    — from Sagittulae, Random Verses by Edward Woodley Bowling
  5. Come, list to me, who wish to hear the glories of our crew, I'll tell you all the names of those who wear the Cambridge Blue.
    — from Sagittulae, Random Verses by Edward Woodley Bowling
  6. So could you but see me now, as I write, you would behold a being clad in a swagger suit of Cambridge blue pyjamas.
    — from A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by P. T. Ross
  7. She was simply but exquisitely dressed, with unostentatious touches of Cambridge blue and a picture hat that really was a picture.
    — from Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
  8. Build factories to weave the tape, [65] Make tables for the rice and dew— Do all your best, and you shall miss The binding force of Cambridge Blue!
    — from Cricket Songs by Norman Gale

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