indigo
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Across the gold-leaf ground, horsemen of the avant-garde charge into the indigo ocean, firing arrows in pursuit of the fleeing Taira clan boats.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
As the sub dropped below 200 metres, the last traces of light disappeared, and indigo faded into total darkness.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
"Kissing me under the indigo / I begged for the morning sun not to rise / Oh, what a beautiful starry night," she sings, totally besotted, on the ballad Indigo.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2025
Through the window of an upper floor office in West Hollywood, the sky changed from cyan to navy and then indigo blue.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024
She had been imagining the scene of a crime, a Gothic cathedral, whose flamboyant vaulting would be flooded with brazen light of scarlet and indigo from a stained-glass backdrop of lurid suffering.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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