Azure

/ˈæʒə/ · noun

Meaning

(countable and uncountable) The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable and uncountable) The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
2. (heraldry) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
3. (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
4. Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.
5. Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.
6. Lapis lazuli.
7. Sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky.
8. Cloudless.

Example Sentences

In robes of azure.

For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]

Berington of Chester (on the authority of Harleian manuscript No. 1535) is said to bear a plain shield of azure. Personally I doubt this coat of arms […]

In Bb [Glover's Roll], the conventional letter B is used to indicate azure in most items.

Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy: before 1399: or, a lion rampant azure, differentiated with a label gules (a blue lion rampant on a field of gold, differentiated with a red label signifying the first-born son) […]

Not like those steps / On heaven's azure.

Not a single cloud mars the flawless azure; / Not a shadow moves o'er the moveless crops; [...]

When Britain first, at Heaven's command / Arose from out the azure main.

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• azures
• az.
• b.
• bl.
• azuring
• azured

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