Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A relatively rare blue mineral, (Mg, Fe)Al2(PO4)2(OH)2, with a vitreous luster.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mineral of a light- or indigo-blue color, crystallizing in the monoclinic system. It is a hydrous phosphate of aluminium, magnesium, and iron. Also called
azurite (true azurite is the blue carbonate of copper), blue spar, and blue feldspar.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) A mineral of a light indigo-blue color, occurring in small masses, or in monoclinic crystals; blue spar. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina and magnesia.
Etymologies
- Medieval Latin lazulum, lapis lazuli; see lapis lazuli + -ite1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“They were fastened at each tip by tiny nets sewn with lazulite beads as blue as her eyes.”
“I catch a glimpse of her uneven bluish teeth, set like mismatched pegs of lazulite into gums the colour of a stormy autumn sky.”
“Besides the colouring principle of the lazulite, there are always more or less mica and iron pyrites, the latter a lustrous yellow bisulphide of iron, which has often been mistaken for pellets of gold.”
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
“Lapis lazuli, or lazulite, is usually disseminated in a rock, which contains, among other substances, a fine white lazulite.”
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
“The exceeding beauty of good samples has caused the lazulite to be much sought after, both as a gem for adorning the person, and for inlaid works in ornamental decoration.”
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
“We have frequently found ultramarine to be darkened, dimmed, and somewhat purpled by ignition; and the same results ensue, in many instances, when the lazulite is calcined.”
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
“The apartment was sumptuously furnished in two colors -- amber and lazulite.”
Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch
“At any rate, we were off early, the weather was perfect, and the sky was an inverted tureen of lazulite blue.”
“Page 113 lazulite, carnelian and jasper have all been found, and occasionally acceptable gems result from these sources.”
“Ten A.M. -- Under the sun the sea is a flaming, dazzling lazulite.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lazulite’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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blue
bluejeans, blue sky, blue angel, blue heaven, blue jay, blue cheese, blue ridge, blue ribbon, blue print, blue rinse, bluestocking, blue shift and 50 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Exquisite.
Words to my liking. (The most lovelybeautifulintricatecondecendinggratuitous.)
unequivocally, destitute, prudent, sagacious, circumspect, discreet, rash, forethought, evince, judicious, shrewd, extravagant and 227 more...
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 281 more...
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