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comparative more ultramarine, superlative most ultramarine
(archaic) Beyond the sea. quotations
[I]n England we ſhall never be taught to look upon the annihilation of our trade, the ruin of our credit, the defeat of our armies, and the loſs of our ultramarine dominions (whatever the author may think of them), to be the high road to proſperity and greatneſs.
1769, [Edmund Burke], Observations on a Late State of the Nation, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], page 8
Of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour like that of the pigment (noun sense 1). examples
countable and uncountable, plural ultramarines
In full ultramarine blue: a brilliant blue pigment traditionally made from ground-up lapis lazuli, and now usually either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically. examples
A brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour like that of the pigment. quotations examples
The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.
1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter II, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], phase the first (The Maiden), page 14