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navy blue
Navy blue is a very dark shade of the color blue.
Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with white) worn by officers in the British Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world. When this color name, taken from the usual color of the uniforms of sailors, originally came into use in the early 19th century, it was initially called ''marine blue'', but the name of the color soon changed to ''navy blue''.〔Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 168 Discussion of color ''navy blue''〕
An early use of ''navy blue'' as a color name in English was in 1840〔Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 103; Color Sample of Navy blue: Page 131 Plate 40 Color Sample E11〕 though the Oxford English Dictionary has a citation from 1813.
In practice, actual blue uniforms of the United States Navy and other navies have become outright black in color, in order to combat fading.
== Variations of navy blue ==
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