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n. - A light shade of blue adj. - Of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky.

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  • It was odd, but she had always liked the word cerulean so much.
  • Deck'd in cerulean splendours!
  • At the river, the Lady and Malcolm encounter the kind of cerulean blue sky that would have given John Constable palpitations.
  • "cerulean" at least once a week in a sentence and know what it means.
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