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ˈazured, ppl. a.
[f. azure + -ed; cf. F. azuré (16th c.).]
1. arch. orObs. Coloured azure; = azure a. (in various senses):
a. pple.
1490Caxton Eneydos xv. 57 The blewe cote of the heuens azured. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1335/2 Two banners of silke azured with the armes of Aniou.
b. adj.
1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 128 In the shield, the azured field is resembled to the mightie Ioue. c1590Marlowe Faust. xiii. 109 In wanton Arethusas azur'd arms. 1604E. G. D'Acosta's Hist. Indies v. xx. 384 Vpon the middest of the beard hee had a peece..of an azured stone. 1658S. Lennard Charron's Wisd. i. xl. §4 (1670) 146 The azured heaven..counterpointed with stars. 1833I. Taylor Fanat. vii. 242 The deep azured night.
2. spec. in Bookbinding = azure a. 4. Also in Fr. form azuré.
1879J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding xxii. 102 The use of lined or azuré tools are a distinctive mark of the period. 1893S. T. Prideaux Hist. Sketch Bookbinding i. 32 The azured tools were first used by Grolier for the bindings done in France, between 1530 and 1540; no azured tools are found on French bindings before that date. 1895J. W. Zaehnsdorf Short Hist. Bookbinding 17 Azured Tooling, ornamentation outlined in gold and crossed by horizontal lines in the manner of indicating azure in heraldry. 1937Rye & Quinn Hist. & Armorial Bookbindings Exhib. in Univ. Libr. 36 At the base is an azured border. |