Under a cornflower sky, up through the gears, and Italy fell away around us.

BBC: Cruising around northern Italy

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

WSJ: The Rich Pleasures of Pleats | Fortuny | Spanish Institute | By Laura Jacobs

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

FORBES: The Kate Middleton Olympic Fashion Parade

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.

NEWYORKER: The Operator

Cornflower blue, steel blue, ice blue.

ECONOMIST: Paul Newman