Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To decorate with lace in a special manner; edge, as with campane lace.
  • noun Same as mazarine-blue.
  • noun A blue gown worn by common-councilmen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister of France, 1643-1661.
  • adjective the first Bible, and perhaps the first complete book, printed with movable metal types; -- printed by Gutenberg at Mentz, 1450-55; -- so called because a copy was found in the Mazarine Library, at Paris, about 1760.
  • adjective a deep blue color, named in honor of Cardinal Mazarin.
  • noun Mazarine blue.
  • noun (Cookery) A forcemeat entrée.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A dark blue colour.
  • adjective Of a dark blue colour.

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Examples

  • Descending a trap, we reached the so-called mazarine-floor, a corruption of the Italian _mezzanine_, from which the musicians have access to the orchestra.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 Various 1841

  • This last was a good-sized square of bright yellow silk, with polka-dots of mazarine blue.

    Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 Various

  • "Can you tell me, my little miss," said he, "why an elephant with a glass globe of gold-fish tied to his tail is like a monkey with one pink eye and one of a mazarine blue?"

    St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 Various

  • The saints and friars are generally attired in mazarine blue.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

  • She wore now, when it stormed, thick woollen stockings and sabots; and another skirt of the Mère Bourron's fastened around a chemise of coarse homespun linen, its colour faded to a delicious pale mazarine blue, showing the strength and fullness of her body.

    A Village of Vagabonds

  • She wears a foul mob, that does not cover her greasy black locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled, mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvas petticoat.

    Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925

  • You've hidden all her hair under that mazarine, and too many patches become not a brown skin.

    Audrey Mary Johnston 1903

  • They looked and saw two velvet Marquees, one striped in broad bands of apple-green and mazarine blue, the other in pale rose and cream, which a party of attendants had just finished putting up.

    In Brief Authority F. Anstey 1895

  • She had grown tall, and the mazarine blue merino dress fitted the slender form with scrupulous exactness.

    Beulah 1872

  • She wears a foul mob that does not cover her greasy black locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled; an old mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvas petticoat.

    A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

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  • Mazarine blue, a deep blue color, named in honor of Cardinal Mazarin.

    October 26, 2007

  • Used by the 16 year-old me in a pretentious poem about genii.

    October 26, 2007