pumice stone
Noun
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Noun
pumice stone (plural pumice stones)
- A piece of pumice; also used as a collective noun.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- in the midst a little riuer plaide / Emongst the pumy stones, which seemd to plaine / With gentle murmure, that his course they did restraine.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- German: Bimsstein
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