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Color:
Sparkling Sapphire


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Colors with the same hue:
Royal blue
Smalt 
Absolute Zero
New Car
Dark blue-gray
Rhythm
Periwinkle
Similar colors:
Dusk
Royal blue
Ultraviolet
Blazing Purple
Delft Blue
Twilight Blue
Cobalt blue
Space cadet
Smalt 
Denim
Sapphire
Raisin
Russian violet
Nightshade
Dark blue-gray
Somber Purple
Royal purple
Oxford blue
Lapis lazuli
Absolute Zero
Eminence
Egyptian blue
Imperial Purple
Ocean Blue
Deep Indigo
True blue
Deep Violet
Metallic blue
New Car
Independence
Words evoked by this color:
sonic,  apnea,  competence,  knowledgeable,  intellectually,  intellect,  trusted,  intelligent,  diplomacy,  knowledge,  inform,  sincerely,  safeguard,  tsunami,  lib,  bylaw,  underwrite,  brotherly,  responsibility,  competently,  accountable,  informed,  dock,  pier,  inundate,  inundated,  inundation,  flooded,  accurate,  asp.net,  shipping,  mallory,  cognizant,  authorization,  integrity,  legitimate,  legitimacy,  loyalty,  justice,  confidence,  boys,  boyish,  plumber,  certainty,  boy,  overall,  patrolling,  security,  authorities,  policing
Literary analysis:
In literary descriptions, "sparkling sapphire" is frequently employed as a vivid color to evoke a sense of luminous, almost otherworldly clarity in natural scenes. For instance, it is used to depict bodies of water with a radiant, translucent quality—as seen in a yacht gliding through “smooth sparkling sapphire waters” [1] and in the imagery of a great lake likened to a “great sparkling sapphire” [2]. The color also enhances the portrayal of the sea, described as a “sparkling sapphire sea” [3], and is evocatively applied to the Mediterranean, suggesting both depth and brilliance in its hue [4, 5]. In these cases, the term transcends mere description, imbuing the scenes with an almost magical sparkle that emphasizes beauty and intensity.
  1. she said, as her yacht glided out of its harbour and bore southward through smooth sparkling sapphire waters.
    — from Othmar by Ouida
  2. Blue Lake Geneva!—blue as a woman’s eye, blue as the vault of heaven, dropped into the lap of the green earth like a great sparkling sapphire!
    — from Penelope's Postscripts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
  3. Here the sparkling sapphire sea; here the turf blazing with poppies; here the quiet pine road to Damascus; here the forests, excellent with cedars.
    — from The Wind Bloweth by Donn Byrne
  4. And I thought of the sparkling sapphire of the Mediterranean and the cool translucencies of Cuckoo-weir. . . .
    — from Caught by the Turks by Francis Yeats-Brown
  5. The sea was blue as a plain of sparkling sapphire—quite Mediterraneanic!
    — from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

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