Crossword clues for semiprecious
semiprecious
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Semiprecious \Sem`i*pre"cious\ (s[e^]m`[i^]*pr[e^]sh"[u^]s), a. Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals. Used mostly of gemstones used in jewelry, such as amethyst, garnet, or iolite, which are sufficiently rare to have commercial value, but are not considered as precious, as are the diamond, emerald, and ruby.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of semi-precious English)
WordNet
adj. used of gemstones having less commercial value than precious stones; "such semiprecious stones as amethyst, garnet, jade, and tourmaline"
Usage examples of "semiprecious".
On three Eastlake easels rested loose yellow leaves of what I now knew to be vellum, each the size of a page from a world atlas and crusted over with elaborately wrought lettering in gold and tarnished silver and crushed semiprecious stones.
He remembered the board clearly-a splendid thing of ebony and olivewood, with inlays of mother-of-pearl and semiprecious stones set around the edges.
Alroy and Javan jointly by a southern baron, was a Cardounet board made of ebony and olivewood, inlaid around the edges with mother-of-pearl and semiprecious gems.
There were psions who were born with multiple talents like a crown of semiprecious stones, and ones born with a single talent like a perfect diamond.
There were psions who were born with multiple talents like a crown of semiprecious stones, and ones bom with a single talent like a perfect diamond.
The floor was inset with tourmaline, amber, amethyst, aventurine, and other semiprecious stones.
They carried the Harrington Steading key on one side and the rampant White Haven stag on the other, and the flat-topped bezels bore the traditional circle of diamonds, each centered by a different semiprecious stone.
There were little propitiatory sacks with prayers sewn into the lining, little hands in semiprecious stones, the middle finger extended, coral horns, crucifixes, Stars of David, sexual symbols of pre-Judaic religions, hammocks, rugs, purses, sphinxes, sacred hearts, Bororo quivers, shell necklaces.
Seated as he was on that night, poring over some sheets of vellum by the dimming-flaring light of a lamp, he looked the epitome of a noble-born great captain, a wealthy war-leader of armies of this world's late seventeenth centuryclothed well and expensively, a belt of silver plates set with semiprecious stones cinching his waist and a bejeweled dagger depending from it.
They had bought a few semiprecious stones, too, for mounting in the pins: baroque pearls, spinnels, jade, slivers of fire opal.
They had bought a few semiprecious stones, too, for mounting in the pins: baroque pearls, spinneis, jade, slivers of fire opal.
The robe of the West was the same celestial blue he now had come to associate with the holy color adorning church domes and other sacred buildings, stiff with silk embroidery and golden thread and semiprecious stones.
Iol: Also known as iolite, cordierite, or violet stone (despite its usual overall hue of blue), this semiprecious stone is usually cut into faceted gemstones to best display its color change when viewed from different directions.
Citrine: Also called false topaz this semiprecious stone is transparent yellowish quartz.
All had facial hair—thick, curling beards in which sea-diadems were threaded, long mustaches, twisted and oiled into points, sharp, triangular goatees from which hung tinkling lines of tiny shells—spotted, striped, incandescent—and semiprecious stones.