azurean
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]azurean (comparative more azurean, superlative most azurean)
- Of a fine blue color; azure.
- 1841, Robert Marnock, The Floricultural Magazine, and Miscellany of Gardening, page 70:
- […] an azurean blue.
- 1845, Fromental Halévy, Henri de Saint-Georges, La Reine de Chypre: Opéra en cinq actes et six tableaux, page 7:
- An azurean sky!
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- 1932 05, New Zealand Railways Magazine:
- […] an azurean sea.
- 1937, Hendrik De Leeuw, Crossroads of the Buccaneers:
- […] an azurean background, was indeed superb.
- 1979, Saturday Evening Post Editors, A Treasury of the Saturday Evening Post, →ISBN:
- The Neptune Pool, an azurean gem gleaming in the sunlight, was designed to provide a setting and reflections for the columns and arch of a graceful Greco-Roman temple […]