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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A variety of quartz colored ruby red by its iron-oxide content.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lapidaries' name for a beautiful variety of rock-crystal, limpid or slightly amethystine, speckled in the interior with minute spangles of specular iron, which reflect a bright red color.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French rubace, from rubis, ruby; see ruby.]
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