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A blue so noble it named a sky, a stone, and a cloud empire.
means A bright, clear shade of blue, like a cloudless sky at midday.
from From Old French 'azur,' which traces back through Medieval Latin 'azzurum' to Arabic 'al-lāzaward' — the name for lapis lazuli, the deep-blue stone prized as a pigment. That Arabic word came in turn from Persian 'lāžward,' said to name the very region where the stone was mined. The initial 'l' was lost early on because speakers heard it as the article ('l'azur'), leaving us 'azure' — a sky-color whose true root is a buried rock.
- heraldry
- Official blue of coats of arms since medieval times
- word origin
- From lapis lazuli, the prized blue gemstone
- microsoft
- Cloud platform born in 2010, now revenue giant
- cote dazur
- French Riviera named for its azure water
- butterfly
- Tiny azure butterflies flash electric blue in flight
for instance
azure windows — microsoft's cloud computing platform launched in 2010
azure coast france — côte d'azur in southeastern france, famous mediterranean resort region