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Brewer's: Prussian Blue
So called because it was discovered by a Prussian, viz. Diesbach, a colourman of Berlin, in 1710. It is sometimes called Berlin blue.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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