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Chrysoprase

noun
1.
A green variety of chalcedony valued as a gemstone.





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"Chrysoprase" Quotes from Famous Books



... workmanship, studded here and there with bits of red, green, yellow, blue, and flame-colored stones. Very learnedly then from William's lips fell the new vocabulary that had come to him with his latest treasures: chrysoprase, carnelian, girasol, onyx, plasma, sardonyx, lapis lazuli, tourmaline, ...
— Miss Billy • Eleanor H. Porter
... throughout Europe for the pomp of her state equipage, and for the immorality of her private manners; ruled by a prudent aristocracy, who spent vast wealth on public shows and on the maintenance of a more than imperial civic majesty: Venice, with her pavement of liquid chrysoprase, with her palaces of porphyry and marble, her frescoed facades, her quays and squares aglow with the costumes of the Levant, her lagoons afloat with the galleys of all nations, her churches floored with mosaics, her silvery domes and ceilings glittering ...
— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds


Words linked to "Chrysoprase" :   calcedony, chalcedony, transparent gem


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