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‖ lapis lazuli, lapis-lazuli Min.|ˈlæpɪs ˈlæzjʊlaɪ|
Also 6–7 lapis lazari, 7 lazarilli. Also shortened lazuli.
[L. lapis + med.L. lazuli gen. of lazulum: see azure.]
A complex silicate containing sulphur, of bright blue colour, used as a pigment (see ultramarine). Also, the colour of this mineral.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. cii. (1495) 588 Zineth is a stone other a veyne of erthe wherof lapis Lazuli is made. 1460–70Bk. Quintessence ii. 18 Poudre of lapis lasuly. c1530in Gutch Coll. Cur. II. 341 A peyre of Beydes of Lapis Lazary. 1641French Distill. v. (1651) 168 It will become full of golden veins very like true lapis lazuli. 1692Settle Tri. Lond. 9 On the Right and Left of these Columns, stand four Pilasters of Lapis Lazari. 1740Thompson & Hogg in Hanway's Trav. (1762) I. iv. lii. 243 Formerly they received lapis-lazuli, and other precious stones, from Biddukshan. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 414 Ultramarine is a preparation of calcined lapis-lazuli. 1870Disraeli Lothair lxxi, The terrace..looked upon a sea of lapis lazuli.
attrib.1881E. Coxon Basil Pl. II. 78 The splendour of the wrinkled lapis lazuli sea. 1896G. M. Stisted Life R. F. Burton xi. 169 The water..was of a deep lapis lazuli blue. |