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azure

1. (tincture) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
2. (countable and uncountable) The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.

    

   • In robes of azure.

   • 2014, William H. Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry (page 59)

     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 […]

3. (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 1”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Not like those steps / On heaven's azure.

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.

• French: azur
• German: Blau
• Italian: azzurro
• Portuguese: blau, azur, azul
• Russian: лазу́рь
• Spanish: azur, blao

• French: azur
• German: Himmelblau, Azurblau
• Italian: azzurro
• Portuguese: azul celeste
• Russian: лазу́рь

• French: azur
• Portuguese: azul

azure (not comparable)

1. sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky

   Synonyms: cerulean

   • 1740, James Thomson, Rule, Britannia!

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

2. cloudless
3. (tincture) In blazon, of the colour blue.
   • 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

     ‘I forget your coat of arms.’
     ‘A human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.’

• French: azur
• German: himmelblau, azur
• Italian: azzurro
• Portuguese: azul celeste, cerúleo
• Russian: лазу́рный
• Spanish: azul celeste

• French: azur
• German: blau
• Italian: azzurro
• Portuguese: azul
• Russian: голубо́й
• Spanish: azur

azure (azures, present participle azuring; past and past participle azured)

1. (transitive) To colour blue.
   • 1907, The Sugar Beet (volume 28, page 271)

     Our readers are aware that much of the sugar sold in many countries goes through an azuring treatment; blue is added to granulated sugar with the view of making it appear whiter than it actually is.

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