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lazuli|ˈlæzjʊlaɪ|
Short for lapis lazuli. Also attrib., as lazuli-finch, a brilliant fringilloid bird (Passerina amœna) of the western U.S.
1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. (1791) 157 Light piers of lazuli the dome surround. 1798W. Sotheby tr. Wieland's Oberon (1826) II. 172 There gold and lazuli the walls o'erlaid. 1824J. H. Wiffen Tasso xvi. xxiii, Flowers that, like lazuli in gold, impressed A deeper charm on the beholder's mind. 1831A. Wilson & Bonaparte Amer. Ornith. IV. 132 Fringilla amœna, Bonaparte, Lazuli Finch. |
