blue-red

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of a colour between blue and red

   Of a colour between blue and red; purple or crimson.

   • This unquiet feeling increases as the hue progresses, and it may be safely assumed, that a carpet of a perfectly pure deep blue-red [translating Blaurot] would be intolerable.
   • A dye-stuff which dyes wool and silk in acid-bath in fine red-violet tints, dissolves in water with a blue-red color and a yellowish fluorescence, is sparingly soluble in alcohol, insoluble in ether and benzene, […]
   • Amyl alcohol extracts a blue-red color from material dyed with magenta, but extracts a yellow color from aurin, while from orchil a pink or violet color is obtained.
2. 2

   Consisting of the colours blue and red individually.

   • a blue-red cock (rooster)
3. 3

   A colour between blue and red

   A colour between blue and red; purple or crimson.

   • Let us suppose a red represented by the equivalent number, five, with one part of blue added to it, thus causing it to be a blue-red or crimson.
   • A blue-red monochromatic color plan includes any hues created when blue-red is combined with white, black, and/or gray.

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