All 4 Uses
azure
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The Once and Future King
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- The silk pavilions of famous people, pitched on every side, were azure and green and saffron and chequered.†
Book 1 *azure = sky-blue
- It was of azure sarsenet, hand-embroidered in gold thread with the numerous small fleur-de-lis of ancient France.†
Book 3
- He was a thin wisp of a fellow, so fair-haired that he was almost an albino: and his bright eyes were so blue, so palely azure in their faded depths, that you could not see into them.†
Book 3
- The latter, because he lived by raiding during the night-time, would have borne a moon and stars on azure in his coat.†
Book 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(azure) a shade of blue similar to that of the sky on a clear sunny day
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Azure is also the name of an important cloud-computing service operated by Microsoft, and a rare given name.