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ultramarine

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Adjective

  1. Beyond the sea.
  2. Of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish color like that of the pigment (noun sense 1).

Noun

  1. 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.
  2. A brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour like that of the pigment.

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