The ballerina Cynthia Gregory, for instance, had a Delphos in cornflower blue.

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Days before, she wore skinny cornflower blue jeans from the Spanish retailer with a Team GB polo shirt for an Olympic torch event.

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Cornflower blue, steel blue, ice blue.

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All were watching as a heavyset forty-six-year-old woman, with cornflower-blue eyes, a sweet smile, and auburn hair parted neatly in the middle, struggled to keep pace on a treadmill.

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