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Cairngorm

noun
1.
A smoky yellow or brown quartz.  Synonym: smoky quartz.






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"Cairngorm" Quotes from Famous Books



... her ungloved right hand to reveal a bonnet brooch of beautiful and very ancient workmanship showing the crest of the MacDonalds of Dhrum set with a fine cairngorm and some exquisite old paste. It must have come down through many fathers to many sons, for it was at least two hundred ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... she embraced her dearest friend in the presence of the whole house, at least in full view of the General's glass, now brought to bear upon the Osborne party. Mrs. Rawdon saluted Jos, too, with the kindliest greeting: she admired Mrs. O'Dowd's large Cairngorm brooch and superb Irish diamonds, and wouldn't believe that they were not from Golconda direct. She bustled, she chattered, she turned and twisted, and smiled upon one, and smirked on another, all in full view of ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray



Words linked to "Cairngorm" :   quartz



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