Wine-blue

Near-synonyms: wine-dark, winelike

We trudge on then by the moor path, to the high brow of the wine-blue purple-dark hill, and fling ourselves down there, and dream there and see there a grasshopper, carting back to his home in the hollow, a straw.

He'd love to sip a pint in a decent pub who never will, though down by wineblue Black Sea . . . ah!

Beside the wineblue sea, magnificent silver tanks big as a mountain gleamed in the sun.

And the sea, as you row, allures like a woman: Rose at dawn, wineblue at noon, gold at dusk, More of a drug than lotos-syrup.

The sun that coloured Lissa's wineblue depths That tanned Porta Pia's red pikes And chased into the dungeons the creep of the Vatican […]

Now I have come in as you see, with my ship and companions sailing over the wine-blue water to men of alien language.

Mulder and Maumené have given it the name of œnocyan or wine-blue, as its color, when neutral, is blue; the red color of genuine wines is due to the presence of tartaric and acetic acid acting upon the wine-blue.

In this modestly sized canvas you find the wonderful blue colour of the Limfjord — a colour Homer called “wineblue” (oinops).