Gabriel Gudding wrote:
>
> Then Dave said,
> >Well, yes, come to speak of it, it is. We have things like:
> > >out of the blue cerulean onto ochre bricks
> > >in the clear wonder of one autumn day
> >which are awful, Barbara Cartland would have been embarrassed by lines like
> >those. At the same time there's some wonderful stuff in it,
>
> Yeah, "cerulean" in fact means dark blue: caeruleus is Latin for dark blue.
> And speaking as someone who's never experienced an opaque day, I'd be
> curious to know what a day that wasn't clear would look like.
Cerulean is a colour, like ultramarine. Its a cold blue, and
well used as a sky blue. Nb, blue's range from cold
(yellow-ish) to warm (red-ish), colbalt is in the middle and
is the most neutral blue. Its not very dark at all, one of
the lightest blues in fact.
Josie
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