Color Names

Genteel Blue

Muted blue with a refined air, for the politely reserved.

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Genteel Blue is a muted blue.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Genteel Blue

Gentry

Gentry are "well-born, genteel and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past. Gentry, in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estates, upper levels of the clergy, or long established "gentle" families of noble descent, some of whom in some cases never obtained the official right to bear a coat of arms. The gentry largely consisted of landowners who were supported entirely through rental income or at least had a country estate; some were gentleman farmers.

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Blue

Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RGB (additive) colour model, as well as in the RYB colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. An optical effect called the Tyndall effect explains blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called aerial perspective.

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genteel

Adjective

  1. Affectedly proper or refined; somewhat prudish refinement; excessively polite.
  2. Polite and well-mannered.
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blue

Adjective

  1. Of a blue hue.
  2. Depressed, melancholic, sad.

Noun

  1. The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
  2. Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
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