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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AZ'URE, a. azh'ur.
Of a sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the sky.
AZ'URE, azh'ur.
1. The fine blue color of the sky. This word was formerly applied to the lapis lazuli, and the color prepared from it. But it is now applied to the blue extracted from cobalt, though somewhat a different color; the blue of the lapis is called ultramarine. Azure is applied also to the blue glass made of the oxyd of cobalt and vitrifiable substances, reduced to fine powder. In large masses it is called smalt.
2. The sky, or azure vault of heaven.
3. In heraldry, a blue color in coats of all persons under the degree of baron.
AZURE, v.t. To color blue.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; "October's bright blue weather" [syn: azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue] n
1: a light shade of blue [syn: azure, cerulean, sapphire, lazuline, sky-blue] v
1: color azure; "Morning azured the village"

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English asur, from Anglo-French azeure, probably from Old Spanish, modification of Arabic l?zaward, from Persian l?zhuward Date: 14th century 1. archaic lapis lazuli 2. a. the blue color of the clear sky b. the heraldic color blue 3. the unclouded sky • azure adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. 1 a a deep sky-blue colour. b Heraldry blue. 2 poet. the clear sky. --adj. 1 a of the colour azure. b Heraldry blue. 2 serene, untroubled. Etymology: ME f. OF asur, azur, f. med.L azzurum, azolum f. Arab. al the + lazaward f. Pers. lazward lapis lazuli

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Azure Az"ure, v. t. To color blue.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Azure 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Azure 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Azure is used to describe things that are bright blue. (LITERARY) ...an azure sky. COLOUR: usu COLOUR n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. Blue, cerulean, sky-colored, sky-blue. II. n. 1. Blue, sky-color, cerulean. 2. (With The prefixed.) The sky, heaven, welkin, empyrean, arch or expanse of heaven, blue expanse, expanse, depths of space, the cerulean vault.

Moby Thesaurus

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