Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A light- or pale-blue color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Pale or light blue.
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- noun obsolete A light
blue color . - noun obsolete
Cloth orclothes of this color. - adjective obsolete Of the color watchet (as of eyes, clothes, etc.).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Above, the sky was watchet blue, free of all but the thinnest clouds.
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July 10, 2009 at 4:29 am wellol… iffn u dus so mawchleh reck ohm end dis… ai will habs 2 watchet
Ur morning rooteen haz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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It should be watchet as it was intendet to do... not cutten down like this.
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On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews.
Kenilworth 2004
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Long processions of maidens all in white, and others of maidens all in pale watchet-blue, are threading the principal streets.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle, inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews.
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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In a cloak of rough watchet blue he had borrowed from his host and a hat less conspicuous than that he had come in from Stirling, he passed, to such strangers in the locality, for some tacksman of the countryside, or a traveller like themselves.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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Atmosphere has no abiding place, no set rules for its coming and going; when you walk upon the hills, their watchet raiment fades, and you cannot carry home the primrose mist of morning.
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Then bucks flaunt tiger-lily ties and watchet suits,
Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country Hervey Allen 1919
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And disregarding my blushes and protests, he held up the watchet blue frock against me, and it was near fitting me but for my breadth, -- the skirts being prodigiously long.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
sionnach commented on the word watchet
an attention-getting pale blue color
November 10, 2007
reesetee commented on the word watchet
Sionnach, I was curious about the derivation and came up with this: Probably from F. vaciet bilberry, whortleberry; cf. L. vaccinium blueberry, whortleberry.
So now I simply must have the word whortleberry, erect or no. :-)
November 11, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word watchet
"...at ten minutes to the hour he stepped into his barge rigged to the nines, from the silver buckles on his shoes to the chelengk in his hat, his bargemen splendid in watchet blue and snowy duck."
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 316
February 19, 2008