az.

Noun

azure (countable and uncountable, plural azures)

1. The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
   • In robes of azure.1815, William Wordsworth, Extracts from An Evening Walk
2. A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
   • Berington of Chester (on the authority of Harleian manuscript No. 1535) is said to bear a plain shield of azure. Personally I doubt this coat of arms […]1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory, London : T.C.; & E.C. Jack, page 41
3. (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
   • Not like those steps / On heaven's azure.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
4. Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.
5. Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.
6. Lapis lazuli.

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