blue

blue:    In current folklore, blue is either a gender marker for the clothing of baby boys, or a colour associated with loyalty and true love, and hence lucky for brides, who must wear:

   Something old, something new, Something borrowed, something blue.

   In the days when bridal dresses were not necessarily white, blue was a good colour to choose: Marry in blue,

   Your love will be true.

   This meaning is derived from the rhyme 'blue/ true', which has been noticed from the Middle Ages onwards; Chaucer refers to blue drapery as a 'signe of trouthe that is in wommen sene' ('The Squire's Tale', l. 645).

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Azure, cerulean, sapphirine, amethystine, sky-colored / Livid, ghastly, pallid / Melancholy, dejected, dispirited, depressed, sad, glum, gloomy, mopish, downcast, desponding, downhearted, hypochondriac, hipped, chapfallen, low-spirited, cast down, in the dumps, with a long face, in the blues, down in the mouth / Dismal, depressing, doleful, gloomy, dispiriting, melancholy, disheartening / Pedantic (said of women), on the blue-stocking order, sapient, Azure, sky-color, cerulean, amethystine, sapphirine

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