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Azure

Azure Meaning & Definition
Azure Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Azure?

[n] a light shade of blue
[adj] of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; "October's bright blue weather"
[v] color azure; "Morning azured the village"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Azure: bright blue | cerulean | cerulean | chromatic | lazuline | sapphire | sky-blue | sky-blue

Related Terms | Find terms related to Azure: achievement | air | alerion | animal charge | annulet | argent | armorial bearings | armory | arms | azurean | azure-blue | azure-colored | azured | azureness | azureous | bandeau | bar | bar sinister | baton | bearings | bend | bend sinister | beryl-blue | berylline | billet | blazon | blazonry | blue | blue sky | blueness | bluish | bluishness | bordure | broad arrow | cadency mark | caelum | Caelus | canopy | canopy of heaven | canton | cerulean | ceruleous | cerulescent | chaplet | charge | chevron | chief | coat of arms | cockatrice | cope | coronet | crescent | crest | cross | cross moline | crown | cyanean | cyanosis | dark-blue | deep-blue | device | difference | differencing | eagle | empyrean | ermine | ermines | erminites | erminois | escutcheon | ether | falcon | fess | fess point | field | file | firmament | flanch | fleur-de-lis | fret | fur | fusil | garland | griffin | gules | gyron | hatchment | heaven | heavens | helmet | heraldic device | honor point | hyaline | impalement | impaling | inescutcheon | label | lift | lifts | light-blue | lightish-blue | lion | livid | lividity | lividness | lozenge | mantling | marshaling | martlet | mascle | metal | motto | mullet | nombril point | octofoil | or | ordinary | orle | pale | paly | pavonian | pavonine | peacock-blue | pean | pheon | purpure | quarter | quartering | rose | sable | saltire | sapphire | sapphirine | scutcheon | shield | sky | sky-blue | sky-colored | sky-dyed | spread eagle | starry heaven | subordinary | tenne | the blue | the blue serene | tincture | torse | tressure | turquoise | unicorn | vair | vault | vault of heaven | vert | welkin | wreath | yale

See Also | blue | blueness | color | color in | colorise | colorize | colour | colour in | colourise | colourize

Azure In Webster's Dictionary

\Az"ure\ (?; 277), a. [F. & OSp. azur, Sp. azul, through Ar. from Per. l[=a]jaward, or l[=a]juward, lapis lazuli, a blue color, l[=a]jaward[=i], l[=a]juward[=i], azure, cerulean, the initial l having been dropped, perhaps by the influence of the Ar. azr-aq azure, blue. Cf. G. lasur, lasurstein, azure color, azure stone, and NL. lapis lazuli.] Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless. {Azure stone} (Min.), the lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite.
\Az"ure\, n. 1. The lapis lazuli. [Obs.] 2. The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color. ``In robes of azure.'' --Wordsworth. 3. The blue vault above; the unclouded sky. Not like those steps On heaven's azure. --Milton. 4. (Her.) A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
\Az"ure\, v. t. To color blue.

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