Blue, subst.: “her breasts, like ivory globes circled with b.” Lucr. 407. “the aerial b.” Oth. II, 1, 39. “the enclosed lights, now canopied under these windows, white and azure laced with b. of heaven's own tinct,” Cymb. II, 2, 23. -- Name of a certain flower (corn-flower?): “the yellows, the blues, the purple violets,” Per. IV, 1, 15.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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