? Obs. Also 6 lazull, 7 luzzel, 7–8 lazul. [ad. L. lazulum (see LAPIS LAZULI).] = LAPIS LAZULI. Chiefly attrib. lazule-stone.

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1598.  Florio, Lazoli, an azure or lazull stone.

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1616.  Bullokar, Lazule stone, a blewish greene stone of the kinde of marble, vsed sometime in physicke.

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1639.  Horn & Robotham, Gate Lang. Unl., ix. § 90. The Azure (Luzzel) stone.

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1714.  Fr. Bk. of Rates, 384. Merchandizes from the Levant [etc.] … Lazule.

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1757.  trans. Henckel’s Pyritol., 284. The blue resembles a beautiful sapphire and a lazul-stone.

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1832.  G. Downes, Lett. Cont. Countries, I. 320. It is handsomely wrought of marble and lazule-stone.

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