Definitions
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- adjective Of an azure color; sky-blue.
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- adjective Of an
azure color;sky-blue .
Etymologies
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Examples
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[448] A Spanish duchess of doubly and trebly "azured" blood revenges herself on her husband, who has massacred her lover before her eyes and given his heart to dogs, by becoming a public prostitute in Paris, and dying in the Salpêtrière.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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Shivering into one another, two souls moored together, like ships sailing off into the endless azured night.
wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007
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I let the dog out, and he was a fluffy white blur of speed, chasing and barking and suddenly there was this soundless fluttering of 100 robins lifting heavenwards into the azured sky, some taking victorius bits of straw and plump spiral earthworms with them.
wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007
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I am pieces of paper, on the surface of the ceaseless azured ocean.
wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007
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With the aid of his spirits, Prospero has 'bedimmed/The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds,/And twixt the green sea and the azured vault/Set roaring war'.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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The upper hieroglyph in Fig. 52, and one of the lower ones, contain this sign: "In his right hand he had an azured staff cutte in fashion of a waving snake."
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The pink and yellow and blue-violet shades of the flowers seemed to intensify the misty straw color and azured grey of the wintry sun and shadow of the streets.
Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933
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Being thus clad and deckt, they did set it in an azured chair and in a litter to carry it on their shoulders.
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Being thus clad and deckt, they did set it in an azured chair and in a litter to carry it on their shoulders.
Chapter 50. Eating the God. § 2. Eating the God among the Aztecs 1922
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His close-trimmed lawns did him credit, his flower beds were flushed and azured, purpled and snowed with bloom.
The Shuttle 1907
ruzuzu commented on the word azured
"So they made these tools sometimes hollowed, — that is, in outline merely, which lightened them instantly, — and sometimes azured — that is, crossed by horizontal lines, as in the manner of indicating " azure " in heraldry."
-- From Bookbindings Old and New: Notes of a Book-Lover, With an Account of the Grolier Club of New York by Brander Matthews. (1895)
December 28, 2022