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lapis lazuli (iou)



lapis lazuli noun phr. LME.
[from Latin lapis stone + medieval Latin lazuli genit. of lazulum, varying with lazur, lazurius, from Persian la&zhacek;ward lapis lazuli: cf. AZURE noun & adjective.]
A blue semiprecious stone composed chiefly of a sulphur-containing silicate of sodium and aluminium; Hist. a pigment consisting of crushed grains of this, the original ultramarine; the colour ultramarine. Cf. LAPIS 2.