ppl. a. arch. or Obs. [f. AZURE + -ED; cf. F. asuré (16th c.).] Colored azure; = AZURE a. (in various senses): a. pple.

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1490.  Caxton, Eneydos, xv. 57. The blewe cote of the heuens azured.

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1587.  Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 1335/2. Two banners of silke azured with the armes of Aniou.

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  b.  adj.

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1562.  Leigh, Armorie (1597), 128. In the shield, the azured field is resembled to the mightie Ioue.

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c. 1590.  Marlowe, Faust., xiii. 109. In wanton Arethusas azur’d arms.

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1604.  E. G., D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, V. xx. 384. Vpon the middest of the beard hee had a peece … of an azured stone.

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1658.  Lennard, Charron’s Wisd., I. xl. § 4 (1670), 146. The azured heaven … counterpointed with stars.

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1833.  I. Taylor, Fanat., vii. 242. The deep azured night.

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