duck egg
Example Sentences
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The dish was a study in circles: the meat pressed flat and dotted with pickled carrots, moons of sumac-dusted duck-egg aioli, microgreens, and blueberries.
From Salon • May 19, 2024
Located in the state’s Southern Tier close to the Pennsylvania border, it offers vistas of farmland, dotted with several big clapboard houses painted a duck-egg blue.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022
This velvet slip dress in duck-egg blue from Topshop is just the thing.
From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2016
Painted gleaming white and duck-egg blue, with touches of gilt and crisp navy accents, the room is rustic in a Martha Stewart way.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2013
The Bank and hotels, conspicuous amid the other buildings, had no verandahs in front of them, but each was freshly painted; the Bushman’s Tavern a slate-blue, The Lucky Digger a duck-egg green.
From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)
