Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bright blue, as of a clear sky.
- noun Heraldry The color blue.
- noun The blue sky.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To color blue.
- noun Lapis lazuli.
- noun The fine blue color of the sky: as, “her eyes a bashful azure,”
- noun A name formerly applied to several sky-colored or blue pigments, but now used for cobalt blue (which see, under
blue ). - noun The sky, or blue vault of heaven.
- noun In heraldry, the tincture blue, which in uncolored drawings or engravings is represented by shading in horizontal lines. Often abbreviated to
az . - Resembling the clear blue color of the sky; sky-blue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.
- adjective (Min.) the lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite.
- transitive verb To color blue.
- noun obsolete The lapis lazuli.
- noun The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color.
- noun The blue vault above; the unclouded sky.
- noun (Her.) A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun heraldry A
blue colour on acoat of arms , represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines. - noun The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
- noun poetic The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
- noun
Lapis lazuli . - adjective Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky;
cerulean ; also,cloudless . - adjective heraldry In
blazon , of the colour blue. - verb transitive To
colour blue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a light shade of blue
- adjective of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky
- verb color azure
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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So he stood waist-deep in the grass and looked regretfully across the rolling savannah and the soft-swelling foothills to the Lion's Head, a massive peak of rock that upreared into the azure from the midmost centre of Guadalcanar, a landmark used for bearings by every coasting mariner, a mountain as yet untrod by the foot of a white man.
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This was particularly hard to do since, just before we went on the air, ABC had shown a series of exchanges between police and demonstrators which made it quite clear that the boys in azure blue were on a great lark. beating up everyone in sight.
r_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
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It is the Accidentally On-Purpose Drop-Stitch Vest from the book Stitch 'n Bitch Nation, in azure, a cheerful and summery shade of blue.
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The impression of an unending azure is broken only by the appearance of five yellow flowers: one painted on each hand, one on her forehead, one on her upper chest and one on her stomach.
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The impression of an unending azure is broken only by the appearance of five yellow flowers: one painted on each hand, one on her forehead, one on her upper chest and one on her stomach.
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To use Browning's words, Scott "fished the murex up," so that Carlyle outdid Macaulay in "azure feats."
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So he stood waist-deep in the grass and looked regretfully across the rolling savannah and the soft-swelling foothills to the Lion's Head, a massive peak of rock that upreared into the azure from the midmost centre of
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To have to care for my dress at this time of day more than I ever did when young and pretty and happy (God bless me, to think that I was once all that!) on penalty of being regarded as a blot on the Grange gold and azure, is really too bad.
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Next is the obligatory blue space which I guess I would describe as azure a place called Danube would have.
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Next is the obligatory blue space which I guess I would describe as azure a place called Danube would have.
yarb commented on the word azure
One of the most pretentious words ever - an adjective which communicates more about its deployer than its subject. A deplorable word which must be eschewed by all writers (for have you ever heard it used in conversation?) of imagination and / or panache.
November 30, 2007
sionnach commented on the word azure
How do you feel about cerulean, yarb?
November 30, 2007
yarb commented on the word azure
I don't really like cerulean, but for some reason it doesn't make my piss boil like 'azure'.
November 30, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word azure
What do you think of Milton? ('...uneasy steps/Over the burning marle, not like those steps/On Heaven’s azure...')
November 30, 2007
yarb commented on the word azure
I think Milton is chiefly responsible for the popularity among poetasters of this rephrensible word.
December 1, 2007
tbtabby commented on the word azure
...Not seeing what's so bad about it.
October 7, 2008
lampbane commented on the word azure
So you're not a big fan of the actress Azura Skye, then?
October 7, 2008
rubah commented on the word azure
I liked it because of that episode of X-Files, where the guy who could take over your mind by talking to you tried to convince mulder he was about to be run over by a semi-truck that was azure colored
December 31, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word azure
That's so creepy. This is the only X-files episode I have ever watched, many years ago, and I was thinking about this... yesterday.
December 31, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word azure
"Tossing her head like a royal palfrey embarrassed by its halter of pearls, of an incalculable value but an inconvenient weight, she let fall here and there a soft and charming gaze, of an azure which, as it gradually began to fade, became more caressing still, and greeted most of the departing guests with a friendly nod."
--Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 163 of the Modern Library paperback edition
February 6, 2009