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azure

See also: Azure and azuré

English edit

 
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The arms of Berington of Chester are simply azure.

Etymology edit

From Middle English asure, from Old French azur, derived from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward, “lapis lazuli”), dropping the l as if it were equivalent to the French article l’. The Arabic is from Classical Persian لاجورد (lājward, “lapis lazuli”), from the region of Lajward in Badakhshan.

Compare with Italian azzurro and Spanish azul.

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈæʒ.ə/, /ˈæz.jʊə/, /æzˈjʊə/, /əˈzjʊə/, sometimes also /ˈeɪʒ.ə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈæʒ.ɚ/, /əˈʒʊɹ/, /əˈʒɝ/, /əˈzjʊɹ/, /əˈzjɝ/, sometimes also /eɪ-/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ)

Noun edit

azure (countable and uncountable, plural azures)

  1. (countable and uncountable) The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
    azure:  
  2. (heraldry) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
    • 1997, Brault, Early Blazon:
      In Bb [Glover's Roll], the conventional letter B is used to indicate azure in most items.
    azure (heraldry):  
  3. (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
  4. Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.
  5. Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.
  6. Lapis lazuli.

Alternative forms edit

  • (blue color on a coat of arms): az., b., bl.

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

lapis lazuli — see lapis lazuli

Adjective edit

azure (not comparable)

  1. Sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky.
    Synonym: cerulean
  2. Cloudless.
  3. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour blue.
    • 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:
      ‘I forget your coat of arms.’
      ‘A human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.’

Translations edit

Verb edit

azure (third-person singular simple present azures, present participle azuring, simple past and past participle azured)

  1. (transitive) To colour blue.
    • 1907, The Sugar Beet, volume 28, page 271:
      Our readers are aware that much of the sugar sold in many countries goes through an azuring treatment; blue is added to granulated sugar with the view of making it appear whiter than it actually is.

Translations edit

See also edit

Colors/Colours in English (layout · text)
             red          orange              yellow              green              blue (incl.      indigo;
             cyan, teal, turquoise) 		             purple / violet
         pink (including
         magenta) 		         brown      white              grey/gray      black
metals main colours less common colours
tincture or argent gules azure sable vert purpure tenné orange sanguine
depiction                    
roundel (in parentheses: semé):  
bezant (bezanty)		  
plate (platy)		  
torteau (tortelly)		  
hurt (hurty)		  
pellet (pellety), ogress		  
pomme

  
golpe (golpy)		  
orange (semé of oranges)		  
guze (semé of guzes)
goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof:  
(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold)		  
d'eau (of water)		  
de sang (of blood)		  
de larmes (of tears)		  
de poix

(of pitch)		  
d'huile / d'olive (olive oil)		  
special roundel furs additional, uncommon tinctures:
tincture fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure ermine ermines, counter-ermine erminois pean vair counter-vair potent counter-potent bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey
depiction                  

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Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

azure

  1. inflection of azurer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Noun edit

azure m (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of azur
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