Lexic.us

Definition of Azure

1. Adjective. Of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky. "October's bright blue weather"

2. Verb. Color azure. "Morning azured the village"

3. Noun. A light shade of blue.

Definition of Azure

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

2. n. The lapis lazuli.

3. v. t. To color blue.

Definition of Azure

1. Noun. (tincture) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines. ¹

2. Noun. The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour. ¹

3. Noun. (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above. ¹

4. Noun. Lapis lazuli. ¹

5. Adjective. Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless. ¹

6. Adjective. (tincture) In blazon, of the colour blue. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To colour blue. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Azure

1. a blue color [n -S]

Medical Definition of Azure

1. Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless. Azure stone, the lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite. Origin: F. & OSp. Azur, Sp. Azul, through Ar. From Per. Lajaward, or lajuward, lapis lazuli, a blue colour, lajawardi, lajuwardi, azure, cerulean, the initial l having been dropped, perhaps by the influence of the Ar. Azr-aq azure, blue. Cf. G. Lasur, lasurstein, azure colour, azure stone, and NL. Lapis lazuli. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Azure

azoxystrobin azoxystrobins azran aztobacter aztreonam azuki azuki bean azuki beans azukis azul

azulejo azulejos azulene azulenes azumolene azure (current term) azure A azure B azure C azure I

azure II azure aster azure lunula of nails azure stains azurean azured azureous azures azuresin azurin

Literary usage of Azure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1862)
"Barry of six, argent and gules, over all a cross potent azure—Gilbert de Gand. ... azure, a pastoral staff in pale or, heightened with a cross patee argent ..."

2. A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries by John Woodward (1896)
"DAU : azure, three crescents, tliose in chief addorsed, the third reversed gules (i., 54).—VON GORLITZ : Per pale argent and or, two hatchets addorsed in ..."

3. The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: With Notices of His Life, History by Thomas Chatterton (1842)
"Or three Barrs Wavy counter- changed Per Pale Argent and azure in Chief a Lyon gardant passant Or. 4th. Gules a Spear in Bend Or between ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1879)
"But azure is the colour of the sky and not the colour of the sea, and ultramarine ... 215 b) “for to make fin azure of lapin lazuli,” that stone being there ..."

5. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1879)
"General colour above azure-blue, rather greyer on the rump ; wing-coverts like the back, the quills dusky blackish externally, edged with dull azure-blue, ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... bishop of Durham: pan у per bend sinister, or and azure, I Fig. 24. Flu It. Stafford : or. в chevron gules (flit. 26). Fig. ..."

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