See Madonna blue on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1917 August, Cynthia Stockley, “Blue Aloes: The Strange Story of a Karoo Farm”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXIII, number 3, page 30, column 1:",
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"ref": "1922, The Illustrated Milliner, page 57:",
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"ref": "1932, Agatha Christie, Peril at End House, page 85:",
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"ref": "1944, Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street, New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann, Inc., page 280:",
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"ref": "1969, Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, London: Collins, page 236:",
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"ref": "1971, Nicolas Freeling, The Lovely Ladies, Harper & Row, page 87:",
"text": "Twilight had fallen, of a pure Madonna blue.",
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