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azure
[ azh-er ]
adjective
- of or having a light, purplish shade of blue, like that of a clear and unclouded sky.
- Heraldry. of the tincture or color blue.
noun
- the blue of a clear or unclouded sky.
- a light, purplish blue.
- Heraldry. the tincture or color blue.
- the clear, cloudless sky.
azure
/ ˈæʒə; ˈeɪ-; -ʒʊə /
noun
- a deep blue, occasionally somewhat purple, similar to the colour of a clear blue sky
- poetic.a clear blue sky
adjective
- of the colour azure; serene
- usually postpositive heraldry of the colour blue
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Origin of azure1
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Example Sentences
His piercing azure eyes are complemented by a new addition to his appearance: a septum piercing in his nose.
Per Pale means that the Shield is divided vertically with one half blue (Azure) and the other half red (Gules).
Softly tremble in the delicate blue mist and the azure spirals from his old Virginia clay—the domes of a sea-bathed city.
In his verses he was frequently led from the mists and mud of Paris to the countries of light, azure, and perfume.
The filmy, azure angles at the tip were straining to part, held together by just one drop of light.
It is in the most beautiful azure depths of the limpid water that this hideous, voracious polyp delights.
Gilt and scarlet and azure the palaces rose in every direction, under a wilderness of fluttering flags.
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