Powder blue may refer to two different colors. The paler variant is often associated with powder snow.
Read more about Powder Blue: Powder Blue (web Color Powder Blue), Dark Powder Blue (smalt)
Famous quotes containing the words powder and/or blue:
“My little bout-town gal has gone
Bout town with powder and blue dye
On her pale lids....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.”
—Frank S. Nugent (19081965)
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