azure

Meanings

Plural: azures

Noun

• a light shade of blue
• The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
• A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
• 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.

Verb

• color azure
  • "Morning azured the village"
• To colour blue.

Adjective Satellite

• of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky

Adj

• Sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky.
• Cloudless.
• In blazon, of the colour blue.

Synonyms

bright blue, cerulean, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue

Related Words

Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, argent, baby blue, beryl, bezant, bice, bice blue, black, bleu celeste, blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, brown, brunâtre, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, carnation, cendrée, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, copper, cornflower, cornflower blue, counter-ermine, counter-potent, counter-vair, cyan, d'eau, d'huile, d'olive, d'or, dark blue, de larmes, de poix, de sang, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, ermine, ermines, erminois, fountain, gentian blue, golpe, gray, green, grey, gules, guze, hurt, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, murrey, navy, Nile blue, ogress, or, orange, Oxford blue, peacock blue, pean, pellet, petrol blue, pink, plate, pomme, potent, powder blue, Prussian blue, purple, purpure, red, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sable, sanguine, sapphire, saxe blue, sky blue, slate blue, syke: barry wavy argent–azure, teal, tenné, torteau, turquoise, ultramarine, vair, vert, violet, Wedgwood blue, white, yellow, zaffre

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