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Examples
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Holt runs Holts Lapidary in London's jewelry district.
'Kate-alikes': Would-be princesses find a new muse in Kate Middleton 2011
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Now I do some rockhounding occasionally (and a bit of Lapidary) and I know well some of the treasures in Terra's crust.
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Now I do some rockhounding occasionally (and a bit of Lapidary) and I know well some of the treasures in Terra's crust.
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He was a member of the Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, where he and other rockhounders managed a collection of stones and mineral deposits.
Paul D. Vance; W. Sheldon Horton; Harry Kranz; Mary Jane McCardle 2010
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Residents, if you know the area for Glen Annie and Lapidary (ph) Canyon.
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Lapidary is from Latin and eristic is from Greek, and so normally they should not be coordinated.
"I Am Lapidary But Not Eristic When I Use Big Words." Ann Althouse 2008
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I said I was going to write about the use of the word "eristic," and the reason I wanted a whole separate post about the use of the word in the Mattathias Schwartz article discussed in the previous post is that I found this 1986 article — "I Am Lapidary But Not Eristic When I Use Big Words" — by William F. Buckley Jr.
"I Am Lapidary But Not Eristic When I Use Big Words." Ann Althouse 2008
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Everything from the Corkscrew Museum, to Cezanne's studio and VanGogh's bedroom, to the Silk Tester's Museum and a Lapidary Museum.
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Diamonds_ are not polished by any Lapidary, but are pointed and smoothed even as they are taken out of the Earth, so Nature itself was all the Art which was used on him.
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Manufacturers, 3; Lapidary 1; Leather Cutters, 2; Leather Dressers, 2;
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831 Various
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