Definitions
having a color between blue and violet
Word origin
16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek ἰνδικόν (indikón, “Indian dye”), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of Indic.
Used in a sentence
“A Southern planter has been sowing indigo and cotton together. Perhaps he contemplates raising blue cotton; and should he water the plants with nitric acid, he would probably raise gun cotton—if any.”
“Details of Thunberg’s charge came as Just Stop Oil said its cofounders, Indigo Rumbelow and Roger Hallam, were arrested on Wednesday morning following dawn raids at their homes.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Deep blue dye”6 letters
02“Deep blue-violet”6 letters
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