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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like the sky in color; blue; azure.

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Examples

  • He turned his wild, sky-colored eyes on Rosalee, zeroing in on her like a bull spotting a red flag.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • He turned his wild, sky-colored eyes on Rosalee, zeroing in on her like a bull spotting a red flag.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • The airport is full of public art, most of it much tamer -- silver pinwheels in a tram tunnel, a fleet of sky-colored paper airplanes.

    A Horse of a Different Color Divides Denver Stephanie Simon 2009

  • Yehoshua glances at Gaius, searching for some sign of emotion on the centurion's square, clean-shaven face, in his cool sky-colored eyes.

    Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 3) 2008

  • Instead, his handsome mouth is grim and his sky-colored eyes stare, intent, into Yehoshua's own.

    Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 6) 2008

  • But when he looked up into Her sky-colored eyes, the pang of unease faded.

    Spirits White As Lightning Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • They hurried from the place, the barbarian leading, for the sky-colored Imbiber seemed desirous of continuing his lecture on the subject of Count Joseph and his Emporium of the Unusual.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • I got enough for a coat, sky-colored, embroidered with flowers and flying serpents.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

  • Aye, with that barbarous mane and uncouth face fur, and those uncanny sky-colored eyes - and, ahem, an accent such as these tired old ears can barely understand - this fat old man has no choice but to believe that you do, forsooth, hail from an unknown land to the east.

    Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968

  • A small sky-colored ladder led up to the door of this artistic heaven, which remained closed long after a crowd of loungers had gathered around it.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

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