blues
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- n a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- n a state of depression
he had a bad case of the blues - n blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- n blue clothing
- n any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- n the sky as viewed during daylight
- n used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- n the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- n any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- v turn blue
- Long before Aretha demanded respect, black female vocalists discovered liberation in the blues.
- The blues are the only style of music that are also a state of being.
- If the blues was about squeezing cathartic joy out of the bad times, this new music was about letting the good times roll.