chrysolite
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈkɹɪsəlʌɪt/
Noun

chrysolite

  1. (mineral) Originally, any of various green-coloured gems; later specifically peridot.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection iii:
      Fran. Rueus […] say as much of the chrysolite, a friend of wisdome, an enemy to folly.
    • 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath:
      And before he died, Taran-Ish had scrawled upon the altar of chrysolite with coarse shaky strokes the sign of DOOM.
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