azure
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• adjective
Having a bright, clear blue color resembling a cloudless sky.
"The sailboat glided effortlessly across the calm, azure waters of the Mediterranean."
• noun
A bright, clear shade of blue, often compared to the color of an unclouded sky.
"The artist mixed white and cobalt pigments on her palette to achieve a brilliant azure."
The clear, cloudless blue sky (chiefly in poetic or literary contexts).
"A solitary hawk soared high into the boundless azure above the valley."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed via Old French azur and Medieval Latin azurum from Arabic lāzaward, ultimately from Persian lāzhward, a region in Turkestan famed for its deposits of lapis lazuli. The initial 'l' was dropped in Romance languages because speakers mistook it for the definite article (as in l'azur).