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lapis lazuli
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tags: [mineralogy]
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Definition:1) a deep blue gemstone2) the color of the stone
photo 1: Merinmotapaco, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.photo 2: by Geert Pieters, CC0, https://unsplash.com/photos/n-RFKi766WI
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Arabesques proceeded from lozenges of lapis lazuli, wove their patterns on the cupolas where, on nacreous marquetry, crept rainbow gleams and prismatic flames.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours.
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She dreamed of the country of India, where she had never been. There were orange traffic cones and beautiful lapis lazuli insects with mandibles of gold.
Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones, p.173 (2002)
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As in one of the pictures that I had seen at Balbec, the hospital, as beautiful beneath its sky of lapis lazuli as the cathedral itself, seemed (more bold than Elstir the theorician, then Elstir the man of taste, the lover of things mediaeval)
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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the sharp peak of Mir Samir, the rocky spires that tower over the lapis lazuli lake of Band-e Amir.
Melania G. Mazzucco. Limbo (Virginia Jewiss translation), p.139 (2014)
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After those sharp and clear-cut Italian outlines, hard as lapis lazuli, the mysterious vagueness, the pregnant suggestiveness, of our English scenery strikes the imagination; and Alan was fresh home from an early summer tour among the Peruginesque solidities of the Umbrian Apennines.
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The Gold Room of the Grand Babylon was built for a ballroom. A balcony, supported by arches faced with gilt and lapis-lazulo, ran around it,
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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The last rays of light shone through a blue glass flagon that stood on the table, streaking the wall with a shaft of brilliant lapis.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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