cerulean blue

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   light greenish-blue pigment consisting essentially of oxides of cobalt and tin

   Broaderpigment

Questions about cerulean blue

What does cerulean blue mean?

cerulean blue means "light greenish-blue pigment consisting essentially of oxides of cobalt and tin".

Is cerulean blue a common word?

cerulean blue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.