The word 'azure' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a particular shade of blue, often seen in the sky. For example, "The azure sky stretched out above us."
Mustafa was a mine of knowledge, and as I stood in the prayer room and admired the azure pleats of the carved ceiling, I wondered at the unique majesty of the architecture until my other half broke the silence by whispering, "I've just been a bit sick in my hand".
The BVIs' azure waters and beautiful climate are undoubtedly their main attraction, but the warmth of the Caribbean people was what made the islands so difficult to leave.
This is the place to marvel at masked fire dances, explore dense jungle, snorkel azure waters and camp by an active volcano, Tavurvur.
Asked if he had felt sorry for those he abducted and killed Ocaya's eyes flicked from the azure sky to the red, baked earth of a ramshackle rehabilitation centre.
On July 1st, Somalia's Independence Day, a local crowd gathered to sing patriotic songs and raise the national flag, a white star on an azure background a rare sight for a country without a working government since 1991.
Built to store water and to produce electricity for the south-western states, and taking 17 construction workers' lives in the building, Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell, the 180-mile-long azure lake above it, provide recreation to thousands of boaters and other water-lovers on the border of Utah and Arizona.
SINCE before time began, every film shown at Cannes has been preceded by a sequence of 22 steps emerging from the sea and climbing up towards an azure sky.
JAMMED onto a spit of land that juts into the azure Atlantic near the centre of Recife, in Brazil's north-east, Brasília Teimosa was until a couple of decades ago a favela of wooden fishermen's huts.
WITH its sandy beaches, picturesque ruins and (occasionally) azure waters, the Isle of Wight is an idyllic spot off England's southern coast.
THE building is striking enough, if you like that sort of thing chunky render painted azure and sunshine yellow; the school's name on the side in huge lettering.
