Definition of ultramarine
1a (1) : a blue pigment prepared by powdering lapis lazuli (2) : a similar pigment prepared from kaolin, soda ash, sulfur, and charcoalb : any of several related pigments
2 : a vivid blue
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Yellow-green, coral, pale peach, navy, burnt caramel, cream and dusty ultramarine all made it into Cerruti’s menswear fashions — but they were always handled with restrain.
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Every evening, thirty minutes before sunset, the space will again be muted with LED turquoises and ultramarines to mimic the late afternoon skies and light up the minimalist white walls—the altar will glow at the front of the dark wooden pews.
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The list of supplies that American wildlife artist Francis Lee Jaques needed to paint the backgrounds of the three-dimensional models: one can black paint, two tubes yellow ochre, one tube ultramarine blue, one tube burnt amber, etc.
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Origin and Etymology of ultramarine
Medieval Latin ultramarinus coming from beyond the sea, from Latin ultra- + mare sea — more at marine
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Definition of ultramarine
: situated beyond the sea
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As a plein-air artist, Laub worked almost exclusively outdoors, in all kinds of weather, and used only six tubes of oil paint: ultramarine blue, manganese blue, rose madder deep, cadmium orange, cadmium yellow light, and titanium white.
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Some, of night skies, embed white dots, for stars, in glazes of a dense black, with subliminal admixtures of, Celmins recently told me, ultramarine, raw umber, and ochre.
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First Known Use of ultramarine
1652
ULTRAMARINE Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of ultramarine for English Language Learners
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: a very bright blue color
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