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Lapidary   /lˈæpədˌɛri/   Listen
Lapidary

adjective
1.
Of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them.  "Lapidary art"





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"Lapidary" Quotes from Famous Books



... chat along the road, and pause to repeat these simple and musical poems, each so elegant, so finished, as the monk finished his ivory crucifix, or the lapidary his choicest gem, we have reached the Wayside Inn. It is the title of Longfellow's new volume, "Tales of a Wayside Inn." They are New-England "Canterbury Tales." Those of old London town were told at the Tabard at Southwark; these ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 • Various
... of greatly varied habits, Carabi,[1] Cetoniae, Buprestes, Chrysomelae,[2] rival and even surpass the magnificent Dung-beetles in the matter of jewellery. At times we encounter splendours which the imagination of a lapidary would not venture to depict. The Azure Hoplia,[3] the inmate of the osier-beds and elders by the banks of the mountain streams, is a wonderful blue, tenderer and softer to the eye than the azure of the heavens. You could not find an ornament to match it save on ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre


Words linked to "Lapidary" :   expert, gemstone, lapidist, engraver


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