french blue

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   ultramarine pigment prepared artificially

   SynonymsFrench ultramarineFrench ultramarine blue

   Broaderultramarine

Questions about french blue

What does french blue mean?

french blue means "ultramarine pigment prepared artificially".

What is another word for french blue?

Close synonyms include French ultramarine, French ultramarine blue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is french blue a common word?

french 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.