a. Also cæ-. [ad. L. cærul-us = cæruleus blue: see CERULEAN.] A poetical equivalent of CERULEAN.
1591. Spenser, Virg. Gnat, 164. A foord Whose cærule streame … Crept under mosse as greene as any goord.
1610. W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, I. iii. 5. Pellucid Onyx, cerule Tarqueis.
1757. Dyer, Fleece, II. 66. The bark That silently adown the cerule stream Glides with white sails.
1852. Fraser’s Mag., XLVI. 165/2. Those fir-clad hills, so softly pencilled ’gainst the cerule sky!
b. quasi-sb. (in quot. accented ceru·le).
1830. W. Phillips, Mt. Sinai, IV. 336. The Eternal … Dispersed his pillar through the deep cerule Of heaven.
