"steel blue" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: steel-blue [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} steel blue (not comparable)
  1. Having or resembling this shade of blue Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Blues Synonyms: chalybeous Related terms: steel, steel gray, steel black, steel green Translations (having or resembling this shade of blue): acélkék (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-steel_blue-en-adj-~bchONLw Disambiguation of Blues: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 100 0 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 100 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 100 0 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 89 11

Noun

Forms: steel blues [plural], steel-blue [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} steel blue (plural steel blues)
  1. A grayish shade of the color blue, like the metal steel Categories (topical): Blues Translations (a grayish shade of the color blue, like the metal steel): blau acer [masculine] (Catalan), acélkék (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-steel_blue-en-noun-2D3Fe5WD Disambiguation of Blues: 49 51

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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