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Webster 1913 Edition
Ultramarine
Ulˊtra-ma-rine′
(ŭlˊtrȧ-mȧ-rēn′)
, Adj.
[Pref.
ultra-
+ marine
.] Situated or being beyond the sea.
Burke.
Ulˊtra-ma-rine′
,Noun.
[Cf. Sp.
ultramarino
. So called because the lapis lazuli was originally brought from beyond the sea, – from Asia.] (Chem.)
A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively.
Green ultramarine
, a green pigment obtained as a first product in the manufacture of ultramarine, into which it is changed by subsequent treatment.
– Ultramarine ash
or
Ultramarine ashes
(Paint.)
, a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli after the ultramarine has been extracted. It was used by the old masters as a middle or neutral tint for flesh, skies, and draperies, being of a purer and tenderer gray than that produced by the mixture of more positive colors.
Fairholt.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ultramarine
ULTRAMARINE
,Adj.
Situated or being beyond the sea.
ULTRAMARINE
,Noun.
1.
a beautiful and durable sky-blue; a color formed of the mineral called lapis lazuli, and consisting of little else than oxyd of iron.2.
Azure-stone.Ultramarine ashes, a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli, after the ultramarine has been extracted. Their appearance is that of the ultramarine, a little tinged with red, and diluted with white.
Definition 2024
ultramarine
ultramarine
English
Noun
ultramarine (plural ultramarines)
- A brilliant blue pigment that is either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically.
- A brilliant pure dark blue or slightly purplish colour.
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ultramarine colour:
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Translations
pigment
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colour
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Adjective
ultramarine (comparative more ultramarine, superlative most ultramarine)
- Of a brilliant blue colour.
- Beyond the sea.
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Translations
colour
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See also
- (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre (Category: en:Blues)