Definition of slate blue
: a grayish-blue color
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Little blue herons are unique in that the juveniles are white while the adult birds are slate blue with a brown head and neck.
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Emerald green, blush pink, and powdery slate blue are the most livable of the hues popping up these days.
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In the dining room, walls coated in slate blue, gray blue, or navy blue with white shiplap (yes please!) were worth $1,926 more, and red dining rooms took a $2,031 hit (yikes!).
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The Sprinting Tights come in muted-but-still-sweat-disguising colors like navy and slate blue, and their minimalist design confines the obligatory company logo to a black-on-black outline on the impossibly thin waistband.
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His smile was angelic and mischievous, his eyes, a striking slate blue.
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In Palanan, which the town’s mayor said was visited by nearly 300 Filipino tourists and a dozen foreign tourists last year, emerald jungles are laced with clear streams that empty into the dense slate blue of the Pacific.
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The slate blue color is a nod to the sky above Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, often described as an open-air amphitheater.
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First Known Use of slate blue
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