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Re: NATLANG: Colours

From:<jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, April 23, 2004, 17:17
Amanda Babcock scripsit:

> I am amazed to find out that "azure" in English means > "light blue". I always assumed it was a particularly > saturated, overwhelming deep blue - like a good sapphire.
It's specifically either the blue of a cloudless sky (presumably at or near sea level; in the mountains the sky is darker), or the color of the stone lapis lazuli (note the "azul" in "lazuli"), which is rather darker and richer than sky blue!
> Probably because there was no crayon for it.
You can buy them, but it isn't standard. -- In politics, obedience and support John Cowan <jcowan@...> are the same thing. --Hannah Arendt http://www.ccil.org/~cowan