true-blue

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From graceful, reflexed forms to showy parrot types with ruffled petals, the blooms flaunt a rainbow of colors — except true blue.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024

He said that unlike the blue-dyed orchids that can be found at many groceries and florists, this flower was the real deal — true blue.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023

Naturally, I'm a true blue Aussie, but that doesn't mean I can't like the way England play.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2023

Only one class of plant pigments has achieved a true blue: anthocyanins.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 14, 2023

Which made any upright, true blue Milagro citizen, knowing the odds in favor of the early Death of the Fruit Tree Blossoms, just about vomit.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols