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cilestrino

pale blue, sky blue

adjective chee-leh-STREE-noh Rare
Descriptions & Qualities Colors

Origin: Italian celeste (sky blue) + diminutive -ino

Also means

cerulean

Usage Note

Cilestrino is a poetic and slightly archaic colour adjective meaning a light, pale sky-blue, a shade softer than azzurro and more delicate than celeste. It appears frequently in 19th-century Italian verse describing sky, water, or distant hills. In contemporary usage it is rare outside literary or artistic contexts. The feminine is cilestrina, plural cilestrini / cilestrine.

Examples

"Il cielo del mattino aveva un colore cilestrino e delicato."

Natural Translation

The morning sky had a delicate pale-blue colour.

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