Azure

Word AZURE
Character 5
Hyphenation az ure
Pronunciations /æˈzjʊə/

Definitions and meanings of "Azure"

What do we mean by azure?

A bright blue, as of a clear sky. noun

The color blue. noun

The blue sky. noun

To color blue.

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. noun

Resembling the clear blue color of the sky; sky-blue.

To color blue. transitive verb

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

A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines. noun

Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless. adjective

The lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite. adjective

A blue colour on a coat 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

A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.

The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.

The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.

Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.

Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.

Lapis lazuli.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Azure

The word "azure" in example sentences

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 (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Nupur (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

To use Browning's words, Scott "fished the murex up," so that Carlyle outdid Macaulay in "azure feats." ❋ Unknown (1924)

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 ❋ Unknown (1911)

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. ❋ Unknown (1883)

Next is the obligatory blue space which I guess I would describe as azure a place called Danube would have. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A soft wind blew the bright tendrils of her hair across her cheeks; her skin was like a little girl's, rose and snow, smooth as a child's; her eyes clearly, darkly blue -- the hue and tint called azure -- like the colour of the zenith on some still June day. ❋ Frank Craig (1899)

The blue appears firm as if solid above the angle of the stonework, for while looking towards it -- towards the north -- the rays do not come through the azure, which is therefore colour without life. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

At the right of the palace the aged Neptune is riding on a dolphin beating with its fins a vast expanse of azure, which is the sky or the sea, for the perspective of the ocean prolongs the blue ether; the two elements become mingled in one. ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)

"azure" -- stretches as wide as the sky itself for which it serves as a kind of mirror image. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The fore part'of thcic incloUjrcs was painted only in one colour, namely azure: but on the cihcr fides was a variety of paintings by Panncnus *. ❋ Unknown (1796)

You use the word "azure," which nobody says, except when they're having their first lesbian experience and looking at the sky. ❋ Unknown (2008)

No more looking out the kitchen window at a swingset, no more using the word "azure," no more stories where the lead never gets out of the bathtub! ❋ Unknown (2006)

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