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Color also called London brown
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carbuncle
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A carbuncle or '''escarbuncle ''' is a heraldic charge consisting of eight radiating rods or spokes, four of which make a common cross and the other four a saltire . The ends typically terminate in a fleur-de-lis or some other decorative form. Frequently ...
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.