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"sense": "precious blue stone",
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"word": "lazúrkő"
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"sense": "precious blue stone",
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"sense": "precious blue stone",
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"sense": "precious blue stone",
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"code": "ko",
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"sense": "precious blue stone",
"word": "청금석"
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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
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"2": "enm",
"3": "lapis lazuli"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English lapis lazuli, from Medieval Latin lapis (“stone”) + lazulī, genitive singular of lazulum (“lapis lazuli, azure, the sky”), from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli, azure”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard). Compare azure, of the same origin.",
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"word": "azure"
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"word": "lazurite"
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{
"sense": "blues",
"word": "blue"
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{
"word": "Alice blue"
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{
"word": "aqua"
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{
"word": "aquamarine"
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{
"word": "baby blue"
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"word": "beryl"
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"word": "bice"
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{
"word": "bice blue"
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{
"word": "blue green"
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{
"word": "blue violet"
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{
"word": "blueberry"
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{
"word": "cadet blue"
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{
"word": "Cambridge blue"
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{
"word": "cerulean"
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"word": "cobalt blue"
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"word": "Copenhagen blue"
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{
"word": "cornflower"
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{
"word": "cornflower blue"
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{
"word": "cyan"
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"word": "dark blue"
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{
"word": "Dodger blue"
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{
"word": "duck-egg blue"
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{
"word": "eggshell blue"
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{
"word": "electric blue"
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{
"word": "gentian blue"
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{
"word": "ice blue"
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{
"word": "light blue"
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{
"word": "lovat"
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{
"word": "mazarine"
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{
"word": "midnight blue"
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{
"word": "navy"
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{
"word": "Nile blue"
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{
"word": "Oxford blue"
},
{
"word": "peacock blue"
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{
"word": "petrol blue"
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{
"word": "powder blue"
},
{
"word": "Prussian blue"
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{
"word": "robin's-egg blue"
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{
"word": "royal blue"
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{
"word": "sapphire"
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{
"word": "saxe blue"
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{
"word": "slate blue"
},
{
"word": "sky blue"
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{
"word": "teal"
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{
"word": "turquoise"
},
{
"word": "ultramarine"
},
{
"word": "Wedgwood blue"
},
{
"word": "zaffre"
},
{
"word": "sodium aluminum sulfosilicate"
}
],
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],
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"ref": "1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group",
"text": "I cannot convey to you the sheer and surreal scale of everything: the towering ship, the ropes, the ties, the anchor, the pier, the vast lapis lazuli dome of the sky.",
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"ipa": "/ˌlap.ɪs ˈlaz.jʊ.laɪ/",
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlaz.jʊ.li/",
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"ipa": "/ˌlæp.ɪs ˈlæz.(j)ə.li/",
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"ipa": "/ˈlæz.(j)ə.laɪ/",
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"General-American"
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"ipa": "/ˈlæʒ.ə.li/",
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"ipa": "/ˈlæʒ.ə.laɪ/",
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"General-American"
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"ipa": "/ləˈzu.li/",
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"enpr": "lăp'ĭs lăzʹ(y)ə-lē, lăzʹ(y)ə-lī, lăzhʹə-lē, lăzhʹə-lī"
}
],
"word": "lapis lazuli"
}
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