azure

  1. Noun.  (tincture) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
  2. Noun.  The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
  3. Noun.  (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
  4. Noun.  Lapis lazuli.
  5. Adjective.  Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.
  6. Adjective.  (tincture) In blazon, of the colour blue.
  7. Verb.  (transitive) To colour blue.

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