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jadestone

n. a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite [syn: jade]

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Other unmistakable paraphernalia sat on tables and shelves: a large white and pink seashell, a slender glass vase holding one long stemmed red rose, an intricately carved wooden box, and a collection of small jadestone figurines.

They were wise, terrified, as bottomlessly black as were Jadestone Doll's when she used the pupil-dilating drug.

So the color green was important to us, and the green stone chalchihuitl was precious to us, and only a child of noble lineage and high degree could appropriately have been named Jadestone Doll.

But the immense pupils of Jadestone Doll's eyes seemed now to have engulfed her eyes entirely.

All this reminiscing may be of some professional interest to fellow scribes like yourselves, reverend friars, but in truth I speak of those things because I am loath to speak of other things—like my next summons to the chambers of the Lady Jadestone Doll.

Naturally I was reminded of the practice of placing a jadestone chip in the mouth of someone dead, and I thought the prayer beads might be similarly and beneficially employed by the not yet dead.

There were also splendid feather mantles and headdresses, exquisitely carved emeralds, amber, turquoises, and other jewels, including an extravagant quantity of our holy jadestones.