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Definition of Lazuline
1. Noun. A light shade of blue.
Generic synonyms: Blue, Blueness
Derivative terms: Azure, Azure, Cerulean, Sapphire
Definition of Lazuline
1. Adjective. Pale blue ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lazuline
Literary usage of Lazuline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"... outer edges of the secondaries, and the greater wing-coverts bronzy green;
shoulders, rump, and upper tail-coverts fine lazuline blue; throat white; ..."
2. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1891)
"Much duller than the male ; face and upper wing-coverts pale lazuline blue ; no
yellowish tinge on the lores as in the female of N. pulchella ; no scarlet ..."
3. A Manual of Elementary Instruction: For the Use of Public and Private by Edward Austin Sheldon, Margaret E. M. Jones, Hermann Krüsi (1862)
"The name of the shade next to azure is lazuline, from lazuli, the mineral producing
that color. The name of the darkest blue is indigene, from indigo. ..."
4. Painting in Oil: A Manual for Use of Students by Mary Louise McLaughlin (1888)
"Viridian is also called Paul Veronese green and Permanent green. Ultramarine—Outremer,
lazuline, lazuline blue, Lazu- lite, ..."
5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"lazuline blue ; wings and tail greenish ; smaller wing- coverts silky yellow;
back blackish azure; body seven, tail three inches long. Brazil. ..."
6. Poems by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1890)
"... Red wrath, compassion golden, lazuline delight.' Thus, in reproof of my
despondency, My Mentor ; and thus I : O, season strange for song ! ..."
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