cerulean

[ suh-roo-lee-uh n ]

/ səˈru li ən /

deep blue; sky blue; azure.

Heraldry. a sky-blue tincture, used especially on the Continent.

Origin of cerulean

1660–70; < Latin caerule(us) dark blue, azure (akin to caelum sky) + -an

On Monday, Nicole Richie debuted her latest Technicolor hairstyle—a side-swept Cerulean low bun—on Good Morning America.

Tangled Up in Blue: Young Stars and Their Blue Rinses |Erin Cunningham |July 9, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
I can see thee now as I saw thee then, with the firelight glowing over thee, like a smile from the cerulean skies!

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 1 |Robert H. Newell
And they seemed to envelop her in a flash of cerulean light.

The Torrent |Vicente Blasco Ibaez
Blue, blue, as if the sky let fallA flower from its cerulean wall!

The Garden, You, and I |Mabel Osgood Wright

Beatrix dug her cerulean parasol deep into the pine-needles and sighed.

Options |O. Henry
The water about us turned a blue that none there had ever seen, so turquoise, so cerulean, so penetrable by the eye!

1492 |Mary Johnston

cerulean

/ (sɪˈruːlɪən) /

C17: from Latin caeruleus, probably from caelum sky