the.com/powder blue
Blue that gave up its ambitions and is better for it.
means A pale, soft shade of blue — the color of faded denim or a washed-out summer sky.
from The name comes from powdered smalt, a finely ground blue glass pigment dusted onto fabric or laundry starting in the 1500s-1600s to brighten whites and tint linens. Over time 'powder blue' shifted from naming a pigment process to naming the gentle, chalky hue itself.
- origin
- named for pale wash of laundering starch powder
- energy
- sky if the sky took a nap
- fashion era
- tuxedo villain of every 1970s prom
- pairs with
- anything, which is the quietly smug part