grue

Languages that don’t have a separate word for blue often group green and blue together in one category, which linguists call grue.

And he aye minded sinsyne, when first he set his een upon her, he had the same cauld and deidly grue.

What he had mainly in mind was to say to the old actress that she had been mistaken—the jeune Anglaise wasn't such a grue.

Now the Grue was an immense crane—used in some repairs of the Pont Neuf—which still held its place at the approach to the bridge.

Saverio Grue was the re-inventor of gilding on fayence; some of his pieces are dated 1749 and 1753.

Ioanes Grue or Grua painted scriptural subjects from about 1730 to 1750.