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  1. noun A light purplish-blue.
  2. noun Heraldry The color blue.
  3. noun The blue sky.

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  • She shifted a coloured pin to a new position on the wall map. —  Hard Frost
  • Silvery-azure, a dome appeared, enveloping altar, sacrifice and necromancer. —  Conan The Unconquered
  • There were deep-ocean crabs whose shells boasted imbedded iridescences in lines of intense green spotted with azure, and strange turtles whose carapaces wore diadems of lights like pulsating jewels. —  A Triumph of Souls
  • "Argent and azure, a barry wavy of six." —  The White Company
  • "Such power" in a child. —  Splinter Of The Mind's Eye
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French azur, from Medieval Latin azura, from Arabic al-lāzaward, the azure : al-, the + lāzaward, azure (from Persian lājward, lapis lazuli).

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  1. from Middle English azure, asure, asur, from Old French azur, asur, French azur = Provencal azur = Old Spanish azur, Spanish Portuguese azul = Italian azzurro, azzuolo, from Middle Latin azura, azurum, etc., also lazur, lazurius, lazulus, an azure-colored stone, lapis lazuli, also azure, Middle Greek λαζούριον, from Arabic lāzward, from Persian lazhward, lapis lazuli, azure: said to be named from the mines of Lajwurd. The initial l is supposed to have been lost in the Romanic forms through confusion with the definite article, French le, l', etc.
  2. from azure, adjective
 

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