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lazuli

luh zooh lee

  • n  an azure blue semiprecious stone

  • The eyes are of shell and lapis lazuli and the eyebrows are inlaid with bituminous paste.
  • Nguyen Thanh Chau liked to capture the beauty of pink lotuses, malachite melaleuca trees and turquoise marshes under a lapis lazuli sky.
  • The background music is low funk, and A-Mei hums her way up the spectrum, eyes closed, past turquoise, sapphire and lapis lazuli.
News & Articles

  • Ancient Jewels From Meteors
    Meteoric iron beads (center) are pictured between ancient Egyptian necklaces that are strung with tube-shaped lapis lazuli (blue), carnelian (brownish/red), agate, and gold beads.
    Aug. 20, 2013 - Fox News
Quotes

  • Lauren Collins in New Yorker
    Collins writes, "A stalled negotiation might have elicited from her jewelry box a tortoise in lapis lazuli; a friendly summit, the dandelion with a moonstone for its puff; a contentious encounter, a turquoise wasp or a copper-pincered crab."

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