azure
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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 (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”), from the region of Lajward in Turkestan.
Compare with Italian azzurro and Spanish azul.
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Noun[edit]
azure (countable and uncountable, plural azures)
- (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.
- 1997, Brault, Early Blazon:
- The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
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azure colour:
- Wordsworth
- In robes of azure.
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- (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
- Milton
- Not like those steps / On heaven's azure.
- Milton
- Lapis lazuli.
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Translations[edit]
blue colour on a coat of arms
colour of the sky
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the blue sky
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lapis lazuli — see lapis lazuli
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Adjective[edit]
azure (not comparable)
- Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.
- (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour blue.
Translations[edit]
sky-blue coloured
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heraldry: of blue colour on a coat of arms
Verb[edit]
azure (third-person singular simple present azures, present participle azuring, simple past and past participle azured)
- (transitive) To colour blue.
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See also[edit]
- (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre (Category: en:Blues)
