azuredadj.
1. archaic orObsolete. Coloured azure; = azure adj. (in various senses):
a. participle.
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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
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.
b. adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > making blue > [adjective]
azured1562
ceruleated1634
sapphired1820
blue-washed1906
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [adjective] > blue
azurea1450
azured1562
jovial1610
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1597) 128 In the shield, the azured field is resembled to the mightie Ioue.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. F In wanton Arethusies azurde armes.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xx. 384 Vpon the middest of the beard hee had a peece..of an azured stone.
?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome i. xl. 156 The azured heauen..counterpointed with stars.
1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism vii. 242 The deep azured night.
2. spec. in Bookbinding = azure adj. 4. Also in French form azuré.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [adjective] > impressed design > types of
Grolier1827
blind1835
blind-stamped1931
azured1937
1879 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding xxii. 102 The use of lined or azuré tools are a distinctive mark of the period.
1893 S. 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.
1895 J. 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.
1937 R. A. Rye & M. S. Quinn Hist. & Armorial Bookbindings Exhib. in Univ. Libr. 36 At the base is an azured border.
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