alice blue

noun

often capitalized A

: a pale blue to grayish blue that is redder and stronger than forget-me-not (see forget-me-not sense 2b)

Word History

Etymology

after Alice Roosevelt Longworth †1980 daughter of Theodore Roosevelt

First Known Use

1905, in the meaning defined above

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