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/lˈæpədˌɛri/ Listen

Lapidary

adjective

Of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them. "Lapidary art"

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... the cranes that would lift a locomotive and lower it into the hold of one of his ships with the tiny pincers with which a lapidary picked up a diamond fleck and sealed it in platinum. He contrasted the pneumatic riveter with the tiny hammers of the goldsmith. There seemed to be no less vanity about one than the other. The work of the jeweler would outlast the iron hull. A diamond as large as a rivet-head ...

— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes

... in The Princess, by Browning in the more brilliant parts of One Word More, by Swinburne in his fulminating Sapphics, may be as little repeated as the analogous hardness of Dryden in MacFlecknoe or the lapidary splendour of Gray in his Odes. I should rather look, at least in the immediate future, for a revival of the liquid ease of Chaucer or the soft redundancies of The Faerie Queene. The remarkable experiments of the Symbolists ...

— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

Words linked to "Lapidary" : engraver, expert, gemstone