metallic blue colors

Literary analysis:

The color metallic blue is often used in literature to evoke a sense of otherworldly allure and striking, almost ethereal beauty. Authors describe characters with icy metallic blue eyes [1] or drape figures in cloaks rendered in this luminous hue [2, 3], imbuing them with mystery and intensity. The color also transforms the environment—skies shifting to a dazzling metallic blue [4, 5, 6] can suggest both a surreal calm and an uncanny vibrance, much like the reflective sheen found on certain natural forms. Even in depictions of flora and fauna, metallic blue is employed to highlight flashes of iridescence and to capture the interplay of light on surfaces, as seen in the descriptions of winged creatures and subtle plumage [7, 8].

His eyes were of the chilly, metallic blue, and his hair, long and fair, curled at the ends.
— from The Free Rangers: A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
She was small and slight, in a metallic blue cloak that swept out, like wings, around her thin shoulders; the hood framed a small, kittenlike face.
— from The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
He wore the full uniform of a Mentorian on Lhari ships: the white smock of a medic, the metallic blue cloak, the low silvery sandals.
— from The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
From her pillow Bertha could see only the sky, now a metallic blue with dazzling clouds swaying heavily across, now gray, darkening the room.
— from Mrs. Craddock by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
The sky above them now shone with its brilliant, metallic blue once more, while ahead, the sun was sinking lower.
— from The Border Boys Across the Frontier by John Henry Goldfrap
But in vain we searched the metallic blue of the sky.
— from Land of the Burnt Thigh by Edith Eudora Kohl
See the slender Morpho menelaus, with splendid metallic blue wings seven inches in expanse, flapping them as does a bird as it flies along.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
Flocks of little bluebirds ( Sialia Mexicana ) frequent the town, the whole of their plumage a bright metallic blue.
— from Two Years in Oregon by Wallis Nash

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