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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine..
Near-synonyms: wine-dark, winelike
We trudge on then by the moor path, to the high brow of the wine-blue purple-dark hill, and fling ourselves down there, and dream there and see there a grasshopper, carting back to his home in the hollow, a straw.
He'd love to sip a pint in a decent pub who never will, though down by wineblue Black Sea . . . ah!
Beside the wineblue sea, magnificent silver tanks big as a mountain gleamed in the sun.
And the sea, as you row, allures like a woman: Rose at dawn, wineblue at noon, gold at dusk, More of a drug than lotos-syrup.
The sun that coloured Lissa's wineblue depths That tanned Porta Pia's red pikes And chased into the dungeons the creep of the Vatican […]
Now I have come in as you see, with my ship and companions sailing over the wine-blue water to men of alien language.
Mulder and Maumené have given it the name of œnocyan or wine-blue, as its color, when neutral, is blue; the red color of genuine wines is due to the presence of tartaric and acetic acid acting upon the wine-blue.
Use wine-blue when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wine-blue means Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine..
Common synonyms include wine-dark, winelike.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonyms: wine-dark, winelike
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