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lapis lazuli

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lapis laz·u·li  (lz-l, -y-, lzh-)
n.
An opaque to translucent blue, violet-blue, or greenish-blue semiprecious gemstone composed mainly of lazurite and calcite.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin lapis lazul : Latin lapis, stone + Medieval Latin lazul, genitive of lazulum, lapis lazuli (from Arabic lzaward, from Persian ljward).]
lapis lazuli [lap-iss lazz-yew-lie]
Noun
a brilliant blue mineral used as a gemstone [Latin lapis stone + Medieval Latin lazulum azure]
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Noun1.lapis lazulilapis lazuli - an azure blue semiprecious stone
lazuli
opaque gem - a gemstone that is opaque
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The bare vaulting of trees along the Mall was ceiled with lapis lazuli, and arched above snow that shone like splintered crystals.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
But the walls were made of screens of marble tracery--beautiful milk-white fretwork, set with agates and cornelians and jasper and lapis lazuli, and as the moon came up behind the hill it shone through the open work, casting shadows on the ground like black velvet embroidery.
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