mazarine

== English == === Etymology 1 === Perhaps from the name either of Cardinal Mazarin or of the Duchesse de Mazarin, but the Oxford English Dictionary states that the evidence is lacking and that it is not found in French dictionaries. ==== Noun ==== mazarine (countable and uncountable, plural mazarines) A dark blue color. ==== Adjective ==== mazarine (not comparable) Of a dark blue color. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== === Etymology 2 === Of obscure history. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that “Phillips 1706 mentions a phrase à la mazarine (not given by Fr[ench] lexicographers), used to designate a particular mode of dressing fowls, and possibly f[rom] the name of Cardinal Mazarin (died 1662) prime minister of France, or of the Duchesse de Mazarin, who died at Chelsea in 1699.” ==== Noun ==== mazarine (plural mazarines) A forcemeat entrée. === Etymology 3 === Perhaps a corruption of mezzanine. ==== Noun ==== mazarine (plural mazarines) The platform beneath the stage in a large theater. === References === John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary