azure
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Is azure a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable and uncountable) The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.Examples: "In robes of azure."; "For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]"countableuncountable
2. (heraldry) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.Examples: "Berington of Chester (on the authority of Harleian manuscript No. 1535) is said to bear a plain shield of azure. Personally I doubt this coat of arms […]"; "In Bb [Glover's Roll], the conventional letter B is used to indicate azure in most items."; "Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy: before 1399: or, a lion rampant azure, differentiated with a label gules (a blue lion rampant on a field of gold, differentiated with a red label signifying the first-born son) […]"countableuncountable
3. (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.Examples: "Not like those steps / On heaven's azure."; "Not a single cloud mars the flawless azure; / Not a shadow moves o'er the moveless crops; [...]"countablepoeticuncountable
adj (English)
1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour blue.Examples: "‘I forget your coat of arms.’ ‘A human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.’"; "On the fesse are two bars wavy azure for waterways."not-comparable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To colour blue.Examples: "Our readers are aware that much of the sugar sold in many countries goes through an azuring treatment; blue is added to granulated sugar with the view of making it appear whiter than it actually is."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary