azuren.adj.

Brit.

/ˈaʒə/,

/ˈaʒj(ʊ)ə/,

/ˈazjʊə/,

/ˈeɪʒə/,

/ˈeɪʒj(ʊ)ə/,

/ˈeɪzjʊə/, U.S.

/ˈæʒər/

Forms: Middle English azer, Middle English asur(e, Middle English aser(e, aserre, 1500s asour, aisur, 1600s azur, Middle English– azure.

Etymology: < Old French azur, asur (11th cent.), cognate with Provençal azur, Old Spanish azur, Spanish azul, Portuguese azul, Italian azzurro, azzuolo, medieval Latin azura, azzurum, azolum, adaptations of Arabic (al-)lazward, < Persian lājward, lāzhward, lapis lazuli, blue colour. The initial l is absent in the Romance languages, apparently having been dropped along with Arabic article al-, or as if it were the article l'. It remains in medieval Greek λαζούριον, and medieval Latin lazurius, lazur, lazulus, lapis lazuli, literary forms taken directly from eastern authors or sources.

A. n.

1. The precious stone lapis lazuli.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > lapis lazuli > [noun]

azurec1374

lapis lazulia1425

lazule-stone1598

jazel1616

azure-stone1657

lazuli1789

lazulite1807

lapis1811

lazurite1892

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1321 A broche of golde and asure.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1411 Al in asure & ynde enaumayld.

a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 351 Ther gold and syluyr wase spred, And asur that wase blewe.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. clxxxix^v This toumbe was..set with precious stone Alayd with asure.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 65 Richly gilded, and adorned with Azure, and Mosaicke workmanship.

1783 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 1 131 About Tauris, the mineral azure is also found.

2. A bright blue pigment or dye; elliptical a fabric dyed of this colour. azure of Almayne: ? Prussian blue.Ultramarine is made from powdered lapis lazuli.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > blue pigment > specific

azurec1374

lapis lazulia1425

litmusc1503

verditer1505

florey1527

bice1548

smalt1558

smalts1591

smalt1598

ultramarine1598

litmus blue1612

verditer1665

ultramarine blue (or colour)1686

blue sublimate1700

Prussian blue1724

terre bleue1728

starch blue1742

king's blue1778

verditel1778

Antwerp brown1787

Berlin blue1794

lacmus1794

Antwerp blue1795

French blue1802

lapis1811

Waterloo blue1815

Waterloo1823

cobalt1835

Thénard's blue1837

iron blue1839

turnsole1839

permanent blue1863

opal blue1880

Haarlem blue1885

cyanine blue1886

cerulean blue1889

Victoria blue1890

Milori blue1899

Prussian1911

Windsor blue1912

gentianine1927

Monastral1936

Alcian Blue1947

c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 330 Youre figure Before me stante Cloothed in Asure.

1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. ii And gan forthwith with golde and asure paint.

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxv/1 Make an hole in a tree..doo in y^e hole good asure of almayne..and the frute shalbe blew colour.

1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI vi. §11 All broad Plunkets, Azures, Blewes and other coloured Cloth.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 484 Cæruleum or Azur, is a certaine sandy grit or pouder.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 874 The darkest-coloured smalts, known as King's-blue or azure.

3. Heraldry. The blue colour in coats of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal lines.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun]

bluec1300

azurea1330

blueness1600

blueth1754

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > colour > blue

azurea1330

Jove1562

periwinkle1562

sapphire1562

Jupiter1572

a1330 Sire Degarré 995 With the scheld of asur, And thre bor heuedes ther in.

c1475 ( in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 142 Thre flour-de-lys of gold, The fielde of asure.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. iii. 11 Blew..in Blazon is termed Azure.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Azure, in Heraldry, signifies a blue Colour, in the Coats of Arms of all Persons under the Degree of a Baron.

1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 143/2.

4. The clear blue colour of the unclouded sky, or of the sea reflecting it. (Originally, the deep intense blue of more southern latitudes.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [noun] > unclouded > colour of

azure1481

the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > sky blue

azure1481

azury?1504

blue celest1535

sky colour1552

sky1668

sky blue1681

cerulean1756

cerule1830

celeste1875

ciel1910

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. viii. 81 The colour of Asure lyke unto the heuen whan it is pure and clere.

1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 62 in Poems He cuts out a silk Mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 408 Celestial azure brightning in her eyes.

1823 Ld. Byron Island iii. iii. 50 The vast and sullen swell Of ocean's Alpine azure.

a. The unclouded vault of heaven.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [noun] > unclouded

azure1667

hyaline1667

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 297 Not like those steps On Heavens Azure .

1737 R. Glover Leonidas iii. 72 Mingling its majestick front With heav'n's bright azure.

1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 10 Above, the crystal azure, perfect, pale.

b. figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [noun] > remote time or distance

mist1701

deep time1832

azure1834

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ix, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 451/1 Borne aloft into the azure of Eternity.

1873 J. Tyndall Addr. Brit. Assoc. When you and I, like streaks of morning cloud, shall have melted into the infinite azure of the past.

B. adj.

1. Heraldry. Blue.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective]

bluec1300

inde1359

blaec1400

glawke1412

azurea1450

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [adjective] > blue

azurea1450

azured1562

jovial1610

a1450 Syr Eglamore 1030 He bare, Aserre, a grype of golde.

?1650 Don Bellianis 16 A Knight cloathed in an azure armour.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 181 Sir Lancelot's azure lions, crowned with gold.

a. Coloured like the unclouded sky; originally of a deep intense blue, now usually of a soft clear bright blue, as the sky of more northern latitudes; sky-coloured, cerulean.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [adjective] > colour

redOE

azure?a1513

the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > sky blue

azured1490

azure?a1513

sky-coloured1567

ceruleous?1578

sky colour1581

cerule1591

sky-like1594

ceruleal1634

azurne1637

cerulous1651

lazure1671

cerulean1677

sky blue1703

skyey1816

azure-blue1859

cerulescent1880

azurean1882

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 101 The hevinly aisur skyis licht.

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D3 Her azure vaines, her alablaster skinne.

a1626 F. Bacon Sylva Sylvarum (1627) §5 No Beast hath any fine Azure, or Carnation, or Green Haire.

a1763 W. Shenstone Odes (1765) 110 The little halcyon's azure plume Was never half so blue.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain ii. xxvii. 99 Slow the dark fringed eye-lids fall, Curtaining each azure ball.

1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 50 It was the azure time of June.

b. (Used, like Latin cæruleus, as an epithet of sea-and river-deities and things belonging to them.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective] > of specific types

azure1697

navicular1774

poliadic1886

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 139 High o're the Main in wat'ry Pomp he rides, His azure Carr.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 427 An azure sister of the main.

a. figurative. Like the unclouded sky; clear, cloudless.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > [adjective] > like the sky

azure1827

sky-clear1840

1827 T. Carlyle State Germ. Lit. in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 320 Is not Klopstock, with..his azure purity..a man of taste?

1841 D. Brewster Martyrs of Sci. ii. iv. 180 Those azure moments when the clouds broke from his mind.

b. transferred in Jewellery (see quot. 1865).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > [adjective] > of gems: placed in setting > type of setting

azure1865

pavé1903

1865 H. Emanuel Diamonds & Precious Stones 218 Sometimes..stones which are set open, or, to use the technical term, ‘azur’, have the interior of the setting enamelled or painted, to throw a tint of colour into the gem.

4. Bookbinding. Composed of horizontal parallel lines, as a tooled or stamped design; also applied to the tool used for making such a design (cf. sense A. 3).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [noun] > impressed designs > type of

fillet1641

blind-tooling1818

blocking1846

gold blocking1852

blind-blocking1870

run-up1875

gouge1885

azure1894

goffering1894

blind-stamping1910

1894 Amer. Dict. Printing & Bookmaking 31 Azure tools.

1922 E. J. Kimble Vocational Vocabs. (ed. 2) 24 Bookbinding..azure tools.

1953 H. Lemaître & A. Thompson Vocabularium Bibliothecarii I. 198 Azure tooling (decoration with close parallel lines).

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

azure-bice adj.

ΚΠ

a1500 Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 78 Iff thou wylt preve asure bice, if hit be good or badde.

azure-blue adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > sky blue

azured1490

azure?a1513

sky-coloured1567

ceruleous?1578

sky colour1581

cerule1591

sky-like1594

ceruleal1634

azurne1637

cerulous1651

lazure1671

cerulean1677

sky blue1703

skyey1816

azure-blue1859

cerulescent1880

azurean1882

1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 113 The pretty Azure-blue butterfly (Polyommatus Argiolus).

azure-circled adj.

ΚΠ

1879 Ld. Tennyson Lover's Tale (new ed.) 29 High over all the azure-circled earth.

azure-bright adj.

ΚΠ

1930 O. St. J. Gogarty Wild Apples 15 And gazed out at azure-bright pinnacled forms.

azure-coloured adj.

ΚΠ

1617 Wardens' Acc. in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 426 Azure couloured cloathes for the poore men's gownes.

azure-eyed adj.

ΚΠ

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 539 Minerva azure-eyed advanced.

azure-flaming adj.

ΚΠ

1929 E. Blunden Near & Far 19 And azure-flaming waves around rock-caves.

azure-lidded adj.

ΚΠ

1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 98 And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep.

azure-veined adj.

C2.

azure lazulite n.

azure-spar n.

azure-stone n. the lapis lazuli, or lazulite.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > lapis lazuli > [noun]

azurec1374

lapis lazulia1425

lazule-stone1598

jazel1616

azure-stone1657

lazuli1789

lazulite1807

lapis1811

lazurite1892

1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Fff* The Azure-stone is most commonly in the gold Mynes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	azure
释义	azuren.adj. Brit. /ˈaʒə/, /ˈaʒj(ʊ)ə/, /ˈazjʊə/, /ˈeɪʒə/, /ˈeɪʒj(ʊ)ə/, /ˈeɪzjʊə/, U.S. /ˈæʒər/ Forms: Middle English azer, Middle English asur(e, Middle English aser(e, aserre, 1500s asour, aisur, 1600s azur, Middle English– azure. Etymology: < Old French azur, asur (11th cent.), cognate with Provençal azur, Old Spanish azur, Spanish azul, Portuguese azul, Italian azzurro, azzuolo, medieval Latin azura, azzurum, azolum, adaptations of Arabic (al-)lazward, < Persian lājward, lāzhward, lapis lazuli, blue colour. The initial l is absent in the Romance languages, apparently having been dropped along with Arabic article al-, or as if it were the article l'. It remains in medieval Greek λαζούριον, and medieval Latin lazurius, lazur, lazulus, lapis lazuli, literary forms taken directly from eastern authors or sources. A. n. 1. The precious stone lapis lazuli. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > lapis lazuli > [noun] azurec1374 lapis lazulia1425 lazule-stone1598 jazel1616 azure-stone1657 lazuli1789 lazulite1807 lapis1811 lazurite1892 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1321 A broche of golde and asure. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1411 Al in asure & ynde enaumayld. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1411 Al in asure & ynde enaumayld. a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 351 Ther gold and syluyr wase spred, And asur that wase blewe. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. clxxxix^v This toumbe was..set with precious stone Alayd with asure. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 65 Richly gilded, and adorned with Azure, and Mosaicke workmanship. 1783 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 1 131 About Tauris, the mineral azure is also found. 2. A bright blue pigment or dye; elliptical a fabric dyed of this colour. azure of Almayne: ? Prussian blue.Ultramarine is made from powdered lapis lazuli. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > blue pigment > specific azurec1374 lapis lazulia1425 litmusc1503 verditer1505 florey1527 bice1548 smalt1558 smalts1591 smalt1598 ultramarine1598 litmus blue1612 verditer1665 ultramarine blue (or colour)1686 blue sublimate1700 Prussian blue1724 terre bleue1728 starch blue1742 king's blue1778 verditel1778 Antwerp brown1787 Berlin blue1794 lacmus1794 Antwerp blue1795 French blue1802 lapis1811 Waterloo blue1815 Waterloo1823 cobalt1835 Thénard's blue1837 iron blue1839 turnsole1839 permanent blue1863 opal blue1880 Haarlem blue1885 cyanine blue1886 cerulean blue1889 Victoria blue1890 Milori blue1899 Prussian1911 Windsor blue1912 gentianine1927 Monastral1936 Alcian Blue1947 c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 330 Youre figure Before me stante Cloothed in Asure. 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. ii And gan forthwith with golde and asure paint. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxv/1 Make an hole in a tree..doo in y^e hole good asure of almayne..and the frute shalbe blew colour. 1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI vi. §11 All broad Plunkets, Azures, Blewes and other coloured Cloth. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 484 Cæruleum or Azur, is a certaine sandy grit or pouder. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 874 The darkest-coloured smalts, known as King's-blue or azure. 3. Heraldry. The blue colour in coats of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal lines. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] bluec1300 azurea1330 blueness1600 blueth1754 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > colour > blue azurea1330 Jove1562 periwinkle1562 sapphire1562 Jupiter1572 a1330 Sire Degarré 995 With the scheld of asur, And thre bor heuedes ther in. c1475 ( in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 142 Thre flour-de-lys of gold, The fielde of asure. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. iii. 11 Blew..in Blazon is termed Azure. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Azure, in Heraldry, signifies a blue Colour, in the Coats of Arms of all Persons under the Degree of a Baron. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 143/2. 4. The clear blue colour of the unclouded sky, or of the sea reflecting it. (Originally, the deep intense blue of more southern latitudes.) ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [noun] > unclouded > colour of azure1481 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > sky blue azure1481 azury?1504 blue celest1535 sky colour1552 sky1668 sky blue1681 cerulean1756 cerule1830 celeste1875 ciel1910 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. viii. 81 The colour of Asure lyke unto the heuen whan it is pure and clere. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 62 in Poems He cuts out a silk Mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 408 Celestial azure brightning in her eyes. 1823 Ld. Byron Island iii. iii. 50 The vast and sullen swell Of ocean's Alpine azure. 5. a. The unclouded vault of heaven. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [noun] > unclouded azure1667 hyaline1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 297 Not like those steps On Heavens Azure . View more context for this quotation 1737 R. Glover Leonidas iii. 72 Mingling its majestick front With heav'n's bright azure. 1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 10 Above, the crystal azure, perfect, pale. b. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] > remote time or distance mist1701 deep time1832 azure1834 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ix, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 451/1 Borne aloft into the azure of Eternity. 1873 J. Tyndall Addr. Brit. Assoc. When you and I, like streaks of morning cloud, shall have melted into the infinite azure of the past. B. adj. 1. Heraldry. Blue. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] bluec1300 inde1359 blaec1400 glawke1412 azurea1450 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [adjective] > blue azurea1450 azured1562 jovial1610 a1450 Syr Eglamore 1030 He bare, Aserre, a grype of golde. ?1650 Don Bellianis 16 A Knight cloathed in an azure armour. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 181 Sir Lancelot's azure lions, crowned with gold. 2. a. Coloured like the unclouded sky; originally of a deep intense blue, now usually of a soft clear bright blue, as the sky of more northern latitudes; sky-coloured, cerulean. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [adjective] > colour redOE azure?a1513 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > sky blue azured1490 azure?a1513 sky-coloured1567 ceruleous?1578 sky colour1581 cerule1591 sky-like1594 ceruleal1634 azurne1637 cerulous1651 lazure1671 cerulean1677 sky blue1703 skyey1816 azure-blue1859 cerulescent1880 azurean1882 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 101 The hevinly aisur skyis licht. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D3 Her azure vaines, her alablaster skinne. View more context for this quotation a1626 F. Bacon Sylva Sylvarum (1627) §5 No Beast hath any fine Azure, or Carnation, or Green Haire. a1763 W. Shenstone Odes (1765) 110 The little halcyon's azure plume Was never half so blue. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain ii. xxvii. 99 Slow the dark fringed eye-lids fall, Curtaining each azure ball. 1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 50 It was the azure time of June. b. (Used, like Latin cæruleus, as an epithet of sea-and river-deities and things belonging to them.) ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective] > of specific types azure1697 navicular1774 poliadic1886 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 139 High o're the Main in wat'ry Pomp he rides, His azure Carr. View more context for this quotation 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 427 An azure sister of the main. 3. a. figurative. Like the unclouded sky; clear, cloudless. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > [adjective] > like the sky azure1827 sky-clear1840 1827 T. Carlyle State Germ. Lit. in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 320 Is not Klopstock, with..his azure purity..a man of taste? 1841 D. Brewster Martyrs of Sci. ii. iv. 180 Those azure moments when the clouds broke from his mind. b. transferred in Jewellery (see quot. 1865). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > [adjective] > of gems: placed in setting > type of setting azure1865 pavé1903 1865 H. Emanuel Diamonds & Precious Stones 218 Sometimes..stones which are set open, or, to use the technical term, ‘azur’, have the interior of the setting enamelled or painted, to throw a tint of colour into the gem. 4. Bookbinding. Composed of horizontal parallel lines, as a tooled or stamped design; also applied to the tool used for making such a design (cf. sense A. 3). ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [noun] > impressed designs > type of fillet1641 blind-tooling1818 blocking1846 gold blocking1852 blind-blocking1870 run-up1875 gouge1885 azure1894 goffering1894 blind-stamping1910 1894 Amer. Dict. Printing & Bookmaking 31 Azure tools. 1922 E. J. Kimble Vocational Vocabs. (ed. 2) 24 Bookbinding..azure tools. 1953 H. Lemaître & A. Thompson Vocabularium Bibliothecarii I. 198 Azure tooling (decoration with close parallel lines). Compounds C1. General attributive. a. azure-bice adj. ΚΠ a1500 Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 78 Iff thou wylt preve asure bice, if hit be good or badde. azure-blue adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > sky blue azured1490 azure?a1513 sky-coloured1567 ceruleous?1578 sky colour1581 cerule1591 sky-like1594 ceruleal1634 azurne1637 cerulous1651 lazure1671 cerulean1677 sky blue1703 skyey1816 azure-blue1859 cerulescent1880 azurean1882 1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 113 The pretty Azure-blue butterfly (Polyommatus Argiolus). azure-circled adj. ΚΠ 1879 Ld. Tennyson Lover's Tale (new ed.) 29 High over all the azure-circled earth. b. azure-bright adj. ΚΠ 1930 O. St. J. Gogarty Wild Apples 15 And gazed out at azure-bright pinnacled forms. azure-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1617 Wardens' Acc. in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 426 Azure couloured cloathes for the poore men's gownes. azure-eyed adj. ΚΠ 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 539 Minerva azure-eyed advanced. azure-flaming adj. ΚΠ 1929 E. Blunden Near & Far 19 And azure-flaming waves around rock-caves. azure-lidded adj. ΚΠ 1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 98 And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep. azure-veined adj. C2. azure lazulite n. azure-spar n. azure-stone n. the lapis lazuli, or lazulite. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > lapis lazuli > [noun] azurec1374 lapis lazulia1425 lazule-stone1598 jazel1616 azure-stone1657 lazuli1789 lazulite1807 lapis1811 lazurite1892 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Fff* The Azure-stone is most commonly in the gold Mynes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). azurev. Etymology: < azure n.; compare French azurer (Cotgrave).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈazure. To paint, dye, or colour azure or bright blue. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > making blue > make blue [verb (transitive)] > with paint or dye woad1463 azure1490 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xv. 57 The blewe cote of the heuens azured. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1334/2 Two banners of silke azured with the armes of Aniou. 1656 W. Montagu tr. J. Du Bosc Accomplish'd Woman 118 We azure wainscots, paint images, guild swords. 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. ii. i The silks are..azured with river-water. 1833 Blackwood's Mag. 34 540 She saffrons the hills, and azures the mountains. Derivatives azuring n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > making blue > [noun] > with paint or dye azuring1869 1869 Eng. Mech. 2 July 340/2 Aniline colours have been employed..for the azuring of the surface of the paper. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.adj.a1330v.1490
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