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Water sapphire   /wˈɔtər sˈæfaɪər/   Listen
Water sapphire

noun
1.
A deep blue cordierite often used as a gemstone.






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"Water sapphire" Quotes from Famous Books



... by three named persons and no others. When it reached Lincoln it was to be arrayed in the plain vestments of his consecration, which he had kept for this. One little light gold ring, with a cheap water sapphire in it, he selected from all that had been given him. He had worn it for functions, and would bear it in death, and have nothing about him else to tempt folk to sacrilege. The hearers understood, foolishly, from this that he knew his body would be translated ...
— Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln - A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England • Charles L. Marson



Words linked to "Water sapphire" :   cordierite, transparent gem



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