saxe

IPA: sˈæks

Root Word: Saxe

Examples of "saxe" in Sentences

Its grey head was muffled in a saxe-blue chiffon motor-veil.
Le vert de saxe est le plus beau vert qu'on ait encore fait en Europe.
I have also done a regiment of saxe-Gotha dragoons and a green coated one with Revell figures, both 32 figures strong.
Pink: chardron; cyclamen; flesh/nude; fuchsia; glycine; petunia; pink (qua pink); rose (32); salmon; shell, and vieux rose/vieux rose saxe;
C'est ce meme hazard qui nous a fourni le verd de saxe car quel est l'homme qui peut découvrir par ses propres lumieres une exception à la regle generale.
These are not necessarily inconsistent, so saxe must almost certainly belong with the blues, while vieux rose saxe cannot possibly be anything other than pink.
“Saxe” and “vieux rose saxe” constitute a knotty problem because on the one hand saxe has strong associations with Dresden china (in all its diversity of color and style), but, on the other hand, it also retained dynastic associations with the heraldic blue of the kings of Saxony.