PALE BLUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pale blue mean? 

• PALE BLUE (adjective)
  The adjective PALE BLUE has 1 sense:

1. of a light shade of blue

  Familiarity information: PALE BLUE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALE BLUE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a light shade of blue

Synonyms:

light-blue; pale blue

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured its first-ever image of the pale blue ice-giant planet Uranus in the distance beyond Saturn's rings.

(Cassini spies the ice-giant planet Uranus, NASA)

And have you a pale blue dress on?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Holmes, the envelope is a long, thin one of pale blue colour.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Far across the solar system, from where Earth appears merely as a pale blue dot, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft spent eight years orbiting Jupiter.

(Fresh Results from NASA’s Galileo Spacecraft 20 Years On, NASA)

There was mild protest in his pale blue eyes, and withal a timid frankness and manliness that quite won me to him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Hillocks grow into hills, and hills into mountains, each range overlying its neighbor, until they soar up in the giant chain which raises its spotless and untrodden peaks, white and dazzling, against the pale blue wintry sky.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the chaplain and the sisters had left me alone with my husband—oh, Lucy, it is the first time I have written the words 'my husband'—left me alone with my husband, I took the book from under his pillow, and wrapped it up in white paper, and tied it with a little bit of pale blue ribbon which was round my neck, and sealed it over the knot with sealing-wax, and for my seal I used my wedding ring.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

With him rode the King of Majorca, the hostage King of Navarre, and the fierce Don Pedro of Spain, whose pale blue eyes gleamed with a sinister light as they rested once more upon the distant peaks of the land which had disowned him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)