azurean

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English

Adjective

azurean (comparative more azurean, superlative most azurean)

  1. 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!
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 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 []