chrysolite
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈkɹɪsəlʌɪt/
chrysolite
- (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.
- French: chrysolithe, chrysolite
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