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jacinths

n. (plural of jacinth English)

Usage examples of "jacinths".

Its light shone on ordinary boulders and rocks and pebbles, and transformed them into topaz or jacinths or the opals we called firefly stones.

The emeralds and jacinths and topazes and amethysts, he said, were even more valuable—above all, the emeralds—though he would have preferred them cut in facets instead of sculptured into miniature flowers and animals and such.

There were massive gold bracelets on his arms, bracelets set with jacinths and opals, carnelians and flashing emeralds.

Edward II gave to Piers Gaveston a suit of red-gold armour studded with jacinths, a collar of gold roses set with turquoise-stones, and a skull-cap parseme with pearls.