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Answer for the clue "A colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon ", 7 letters:
jargoon

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Jargoon or jargon (occasionally in old writings jargounce and jacounce ) is a name applied by gemologists to those zircons which are fine enough to be cut as gemstones , but are not of the red color which characterizes the hyacinth or jacinth . The word ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon [syn: jargon ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A variety of zircon.

Usage examples of jargoon.

A moment later she had shot the bolt of the jargoon buckle and pulled away the belt so that now a very battered and bloodstained young man rested at their feet.

If he was a bit of an antiquary, he probably added that, in the eighteenth century, jargoon stones were supposed to be actually an inferior sort of diamond.