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  • proper noun A female given name from the precious stone.

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Examples

  • Welcome to the SAPPHIRE Family data is displayed and games are played, Sapphire shepherds the performance oriented with ground-breaking solutions to an environment that remains in a constant state of flux and ultimate evolution.

    OCTools 2008

  • The name Sapphire came from the popular but racist radio and television program Amos ’n Andy in the personification of a hostile, nagging black female character.

    Don’t Bring Home a White Boy KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN 2010

  • A huge crowd turned out to hear what the poet and author who goes only by the name Sapphire had to say -- so big ...

    Trish Kinney: Mo'Nique Gives a Precious Gift to Abuse Survivors 2010

  • Sapphire is the face of the watch; cheaper alternatives might be plastics.

    Matthew Yglesias » Did Albanians Steal Bush’s Watch 2007

  • Yet this picture gives up its big surprise early on: The red-headed, fair-skinned corpse discovered as the film opens—a pretty young woman called Sapphire—turns out to have been of mixed race passing for white.

    Lessons Without Lectures David Mermelstein 2011

  • Mr. KRAVITZ: There was a book called "Push" written by a writer called Sapphire, and this is the film adaptation.

    Lenny Kravitz Lets Love Rule For 20 Years 2009

  • Sony showed two new Blu-ray prototypes, called Sapphire 1 and Sapphire 2, which will support a new, wider color gamut called xvYCC although Sony, of course, has its own nomenclature, x.v.

    CES: In high-dev DVD war, LG, Warner play Switzerland 2007

  • Sony showed two new Blu-ray prototypes, called Sapphire 1 and Sapphire 2, which will support a new, wider color gamut called xvYCC (although Sony, of course, has its own nomenclature, x.v. Color).

    CES: In high-dev DVD war, LG, Warner play Switzerland 2007

  • A beautiful woman named Blossom who DJs at a club called Sapphire?

    A-J Phoebe McPhee 2002

  • But she always longed to be called Sapphire, after her sapphire-blue eyes.

    unknown title 2011

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