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Subject:	lazur
Date:	Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:46:51 +0100
From:	371421 <371421@libero.it>
To:	NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>

V. Fet: "At least in Russian poetry "azure" ("lazur' ") used as a noun often means sky, being a standard poetic cliche'
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However, very often "azure" is used as a synonym of sky"

Just the same in Italian (azzurro = cielo), even if such use in prose writing has a certain démodé air, nowadays.

Giulia Visintin

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