azure

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[edit] Etymology

Old French azur, derived from Arabic لازوَرْد (lāzaward), lapis lazuli), dropping the l as if it were equivalent to the French article l'. The Arabic is from Persian لاجورد (lajward), azure), from the region of Lajward in Turkestan.

Compare with Italian azzurro and Spanish azul.

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Singular
azure

Plural
uncountable

azure (uncountable)

  1. (heraldry) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
    • 1997, Brault, Early Blazon:
      In Bb [Glover's Roll], the conventional letter B is used to indicate azure in most items.
  2. The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
    azure colour:    
  3. (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
  4. Lapis lazuli.

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  • (blue color on a coat of arms): az., b., bl.

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azure (not comparable)

Positive
azure

Comparative
not comparable

Superlative
none (absolute)

  1. (color/colour) Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.
  2. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour blue.

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Infinitive
to azure

Third person singular
azures

Simple past
azured

Past participle
azured

Present participle
azuring

to azure (third-person singular simple present azures, present participle azuring, simple past and past participle azured)

  1. (transitive) To colour blue.

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