Powder Blue

  

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Powder Blue

Definition: Powder Blue

Powder Blue

Adjective

1. Moderate to pale blue or purplish blue.

Noun

1. A dusty pale blue color.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: Powder Blue

DomainUsage

Screenplays

3 Powder Blue Eyes. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Hello my Powder blue friend. (Ed; writing credit: Steven Joel Kerzner)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Powder Blue

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

powder blue tang

24

powder blue

14

powder blue tangs

5

powder blue surgeon

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Powder Blue

Language Translations for "powder blue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

светлосин цвят (saxe, saxon blue), синка за пране (blueing, bluing), кобалтов окис. (various references)

   

French

  

bleu pastel. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owderpay ueblay

   

Russian 

  

окись (oxide). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

azul pálido. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

blåelse (blue, blueing, bluing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Powder Blue

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-l-o-p-r-u-w"

-2 letters: redouble.

-3 letters: boulder, boweled, bowered, bowlder, burweed, deplore, doubler, elbowed, lowbred, lowered, powered, prelude, prowled, roweled, urodele.

-4 letters: blowed, blower, blowup, bolder, bordel, bowled, bowler, brewed, browed, burled, burped, double, dueler, eloped, eloper, eluder, lewder, louder, louped, loured, pedler, perdue, plowed, plower, polder, poured, powder, probed, pueblo, pureed, purled, repled, reweld, rouble, rouped.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Powder Blue


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 77 64 65 72      42 6C 75 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01110111 01100100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000010 01101100 01110101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#119 &#100 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#66 &#108 &#117 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0077 0064 0065 0072      0042 006C 0075 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508189707184236788771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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