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AZURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A light shade of blue
Synonyms:
azure; cerulean; lazuline; sapphire; sky-blue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("azure" is a kind of...):
blue; blueness (blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime)
Derivation:
azure (color azure)
azure (of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky
Example:
October's bright blue weather
Synonyms:
azure; bright blue; cerulean; sky-blue
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Derivation:
azure (a light shade of blue)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Color azure
Example:
Morning azured the village
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "azure" is one way to...):
color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize (add color to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
azure (a light shade of blue)
Context examples:
Argent and azure, a barry wavy of six.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A rude noise broke on these fine ripplings and whisperings, at once so far away and so clear: a positive tramp, tramp, a metallic clatter, which effaced the soft wave-wanderings; as, in a picture, the solid mass of a crag, or the rough boles of a great oak, drawn in dark and strong on the foreground, efface the aerial distance of azure hill, sunny horizon, and blended clouds where tint melts into tint.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It hath ever grieved me that I had not his name, for he smote upon me with a mace and went upon his way ere I was in condition to have much speech with him; but his arms were an allurion in chief above a fess azure.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She broke forth as never moon yet burst from cloud: a hand first penetrated the sable folds and waved them away; then, not a moon, but a white human form shone in the azure, inclining a glorious brow earthward.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Leaning over the battlements and looking far down, I surveyed the grounds laid out like a map: the bright and velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day's sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
