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All but pair up with pawnbroker to obtain gem
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carbuncle
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. deep-red cabochon-cut garnet cut without facets an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game , the carbuncle is a type of fictional monster.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., "fiery jewel," from Old North French carbuncle (Old French charbocle , charboncle ) "carbuncle-stone," also "carbuncle, boil," from Latin carbunculus "red gem," also "red, inflamed spot," literally "a little coal," from carbo (genitive carbonis ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A heap of bones, a wrecked carbuncle . ▪ Karl Marx said that the bourgeoisie would suffer from the carbuncles that afflicted his buttocks as he composed Das Kapital. ▪ This can be seen in the liquified, dead centre of the carbuncle ...
Usage examples of carbuncle.
And I will eat these broths with spoons of amber, Headed with diamond and carbuncle.
Cugel called down a final curse of pulsing carbuncles upon Iucounu, then, picking his way across the shingle, he climbed to the crest of a dune and looked in all directions.
Cold twilight moved on wind wings through the oozing underworld of docks and moorages, where cold dawn had seen the Change come to Carbuncle.
Summer has come to Carbuncle, and this city is no longer closed to sibyls--more than anyone, more than anyone can know, sibyls belong here!
Tenderly, in every sense, he monitored their facelifts and breast-implants, their tattoos, pubic hairdos, the bodies in question increasingly encrusted with cellulite and jewelry, chokers, anklets, bracelets, nipple-rings, navel-studs, tongue-claspsheavy brooches, carbuncles, pierced into the tongue.
The chaplet had twelve great carbuncles in the centre, and went off by gradations into smaller garnets by the thousand.
Beyond these walls the city of Carbuncle climaxed its celebration of the Prime Minister's cyclical visit to this world with a night of joyous abandon.
The city of Carbuncle sits like a great spiral shell cast up at the edge of the sea, high in the northern latitudes on the coast of Tiamat's largest island.
It is called Carbuncle because it is either a jewel or a fester, depending on your point of view.
Gazing straight ahead, he saw Carbuncle lying at the sea's edge like the incredible fragment of a dream.
And reducing it all to insignificance, Carbuncle itself, crouching like a great sheltering beast overhead.
Or he could admit that he had learned the real lesson: that Carbuncle had only stripped him naked of his illusions, taught him that he had nothing, he was nothing .
He moved them helplessly, brushed the pouch hanging at his belt, the one thing that Tor and Carbuncle had left him: his flute.
Even here, so near the pinnacle of Carbuncle, the hall was overpowering in its vastness.
Anything to get you back on a ship and away from here, before Carbuncle ruins another life.