ultramarine
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Beyond the sea.
- Of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish color like that of the pigment (noun sense 1).
Noun
- In full ultramarine blue: a brilliant blue pigment traditionally made from ground-up lapis lazuli, and now usually either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically.
- A brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour like that of the pigment.
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