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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of azure.

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Examples

  • The Union Shield across the body of the eagle uses horizontal parallel lines, called azures, to represent the color blue.

    Draped Bust Half Dime, Heraldic Eagle, 1800-1805 : Coin Guide 2009

  • Ms. Taylor always shows the most amazing cool blues, azures and deep lavenders.

    Mary Hall: New York Fashion Week: Rebecca Taylor Fall 2011 Mary Hall 2011

  • The Union Shield across the body of the eagle uses horizontal parallel lines, called azures, to represent the color blue.

    Draped Bust Half Dime, Heraldic Eagle, 1800-1805 : Coin Guide 2009

  • Ms. Taylor always shows the most amazing cool blues, azures and deep lavenders.

    Mary Hall: New York Fashion Week: Rebecca Taylor Fall 2011 Mary Hall 2011

  • Not as nice as the Ottoman Rose, and it could be a bit darker, but I understand on some intellectual level that New England skies are a different color from most other skies, and I can't judge other azures by the azure we have here at home.

    if they take us, they will burn us. worldwire 2007

  • October 1st, 2005 at 7:17 am i donno great thing your doing but maybe you should consider another filesharing program given what limewires been doing with it lately or give out older versions and tell them not to update it or theyre screwed essentially or give them shareaza and azures. dont get offeneded or anything, it is a great thing your doing, just a suggestion

    757 new RIAA victims 2005

  • It seemed to draw to itself the light, sending it back with gleamings of the gray-blue of the star sapphire, with pellucid azures and lazulis like clouded jades, with glistening peacock iridescences and tender, milky greens of tropic shallows.

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • French greys contrasting with the rosy pinks, the azures, the purples, and the golden yellows with which distance paints the horizon.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • As he watched, the wave of colors flowed over the arch of the sky, shimmering in a luminous corona and rolling in clouds of azures and deep crimsons.

    Ice Hunt Rollins, James, 1961- 2003

  • As they gained height, the air grew fresher and colour rioted, azures and crimsons, yellows and mauves, all the beautifully tinted snares of nature.

    HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962

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