Savoy Blue

Savoy blue

Savoy blue or Savoy azure, also known as Italian blue, is a shade of saturated blue between peacock blue and periwinkle, lighter than peacock blue. Since the Middle Ages, it has been the colour of the House of Savoy, the royal dynasty of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1946, as well as of its predecessor state, the Kingdom of Sardinia–Piedmont.

Savoy

Savoy is a cultural-historical region in the Western Alps. Situated on the cultural boundary between Occitania and Piedmont, the area extends from Lake Geneva in the north to the Dauphiné in the south and west and to the Aosta Valley in the east.

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.

savoy

Noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Savoy (“type of cabbage”).

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.