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azure
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Definition:a shade of blue
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He was splendid in an azure-blue coat, heavily laced with gold, buttoned with silver, and with rose silk cuffs that turned back almost to the elbow.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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I reflected that already the Ponte Vecchio was heaped high with an abundance of hyacinths and anemones, and that the spring sunshine was already tinging the waves of the Grand Canal with so dusky an azure,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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the rough boles of a great oak, drawn in dark and strong on the foreground, efface the aërial distance of azure hill, sunny horizon, and blended clouds where tint melts into tint.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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and three invected lines on a field azure,
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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its red wax stamp quartered with three silver mitres against a field of azure and fastened at the neck, like a papal bull, with bands of lead, its label inscribed in sonorous Latin, on paper that seemed to have yellowed with age: Liquor Monachorum Benedictinorum Abbatiae Fiscannensis.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours.
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