Bluishness

Definitions

The quality of being bluish.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] the blinds and curtains made it almost dark. Still from the pale bluishness which filtered in one could see⟳ that it was very early.”

“Should a stranger suppose⟳ that they were white, he would soon be told that they were halfcaste. Should one doubt⟳ it, as passing strangers sometimes did, the children would be seized if unprotected and have⟳ the whites of their eyes and bases of their finger-nails searched for that bluishness which is supposed to be the evidence of black blood.”

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