Definition of "azurine" [az•u•rine]

• Sky-blue; azure. (adjective)
• The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus caeruleus), so called from its color. (noun)

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• "Also, some of their women tint their faces proportionally, as chin, cheeks, and forehead and the wrists of their hands, whereupon they lay a colour which continueth dark azurine."
• "Beyond rose the apartment houses where the middle and lower classes lived, those of the poorer characterized by few windows and cracking plaster, and those of the better-off by the wonderful multistoried murals painted by the gypsy artists, and by the brilliant azurine tiles which kept the houses warm in winter and cool in summer."
• "_ -- Make up a dye-bath with 2 lb. Benzo azurine G, 20 lb. Glauber's salt."