azure
/ˈæʒɚ/ noun C1- The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
- A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
- The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
- Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.
- Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.
- Lapis lazuli.
Plural azures
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“Azure seven merlets, or, placed bender,” said he.
They sailed; Edmond was again cleaving the azure sea which had been the first horizon of his youth, and which he had so often dreamed of in prison.
Then in the long days on board ship, when the vessel, gliding on with security over the azure sea, required no care but the hand of the helmsman, thanks to the favorable winds that swelled her sails, Edmond, with a chart in his hand, became the instructor of Jacopo, as the poor Abbé Faria had been his tutor.
He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God writes in azure with letters of diamonds.
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