Madonna blue

English Noun - A shade of deep blue. en w:Cynthia Stockley Blue Aloes: The Strange Story of a Karoo Farm Cosmopolitan LXIII 3 August 1917 30 https://archive.org/details/sim_cosmopolitan_1917-08_63_3/page/30/mode/1up 1 No doubt it had a beauty all its own, but beneath its fantastic, isolated blooms and leaves of Madonna blue, the gnarled roots sheltered a hundred varieties of poisonous reptiles and insects. en The Illustrated Milliner 1922 57 A little Dutch bonnet for the tiny girl is made of Madonna blue broadcloth. en w:Agatha Christie w:Peril at End House 1932 85 She was wearing a gown of Madonna blue and looked very fragile and ethereal. en w:Elizabeth Goudge Green Dolphin Street New York, N.Y. Coward-McCann, Inc. 1944 280 https://archive.org/details/greendolphinstr00goud/page/280/mode/1up But now, in a few months’ time, the lease would be terminated, the owners were unwilling to renew it, and nowhere upon the Island could Reverend Mother find another vacant house large enough to house twenty female orphans; devout, happy little orphans who went to Mass on Sundays walking two by two, clothed in dresses of Madonna blue with white tuckers at the necks, blue cloaks, and black bonnets tied beneath their orphaned chins with neat blue bows. en w:Gerald Durrell Birds, Beasts and Relatives London Collins 1969 236 https://archive.org/details/birdsbeastsrelat00durr/page/236/mode/1up Tanks would be filled and the sprayers would move through the frilly groves of vine, covering each leaf, wrapping each bunch of green grapes in a delicate web of Madonna blue. en w:Nicolas Freeling The Lovely Ladies Harper & Row 1971 87 https://archive.org/details/lovelyladies0000nico/page/87/mode/1up Twilight had fallen, of a pure Madonna blue. en Shelley Adina A Lady of Spirit Magnificent Devices book six Moonshell Books 2014 9781939087140 She was painted on the plaster, her halo and the cross in her hand picked out in gold leaf, her mermaid’s tail a grand sweep of Madonna blue, lilac, and deep sea-green. References Madonna 00138039 en Blues