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A semiprecious stone usually of a rich azure blue color that is essentially a lazurite but contains hauynite, sodalite, and other minerals, occurs usually in small rounded masses frequently showing spangles of iron pyrites, and is probably the sapphire of

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  • Near a temple of Mars, outside the walls of Rome, there was kept a certain stone known as the lapis manalis.
  • The lapis was his mark and she wore it as a reminder to herself that she belonged to him.
  • Other mountains also in this province yield stones called lapis lazuli, whereof the best azure is made.
  • And the king of the Singhalas gave those best of sea-born gems called the lapis lazuli, and heaps of pearls also, and hundreds of coverlets for elephants.
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