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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Turquoise \Tur*quoise"\, a. Having a fine light blue color, like that of choice mineral turquoise.
Turquoise \Tur*quoise"\, Turquois \Tur*quois"\ (?; 277), n. [F. turquoise; cf. Pr. & Sp. turquesa, It. turchese, turchina, LL. turchesius, turchina; -- so called because first brought from Turkey. See 1st Turkey.] (Min.) A hydrous phosphate of alumina containing a little copper; calaite. It has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface.
Note: Turquoise is susceptible of a high polish, and when of a bright blue color is much esteemed as a gem. The finest specimens come from Persia. It is also found in New Mexico and Arizona, and is regarded as identical with the chalchihuitl of the Mexicans.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
greenish-blue precious stone, 1560s, from Middle French, replacing Middle English turkeis, turtogis (late 14c.), from Old French fem. adjective turqueise "Turkish," in pierre turqueise "Turkish stone," so called because it was first brought to Europe from Turkestan or some other Turkish dominion. Cognate with Spanish turquesa, Medieval Latin (lapis) turchesius, Middle Dutch turcoys, German türkis, Swedish turkos. As an adjective, 1570s. As a color name, attested from 1853. "Chemically it is a hydrated phosphate of aluminum and copper" [Flood].
Wiktionary
a. 1 Made of turquoise (the gemstone). 2 Having a pale greenish-blue colour. n. A sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone.
WordNet
n. a blue to gray green mineral consisting of copper aluminum phosphate; blue turquoise is valued as a gemstone
a shade of blue tinged with green [syn: greenish blue, aqua, aquamarine, cobalt blue, peacock blue]
Wikipedia
Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrated phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula Cu Al ( OH)·4. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gem and ornamental stone for thousands of years owing to its unique hue. In recent times, turquoise has been devalued, like most other opaque gems, by the introduction onto the market of treatments, imitations, and synthetics.
The substance has been known by many names, but the word turquoise dates to the 17th century and is derived from the French turques for "Turks" because the mineral was first brought to Europe from Turkey, from mines in the historical Khorasan Province of Persia. Pliny the Elder referred to the mineral as callais and the Aztecs knew it as chalchihuitl.
Turquoise or is the name of a greenish-blue color, based on the gem of the same name. The word turquoise comes from the French for Turkish, as the gem was originally imported from Turkey. The first recorded use of turquoise as a color name in English was in 1573. It is, generally thought to consist of 70% blue and 30% green.
The X11 color named turquoise is displayed on the right.
Turquoise is an equities trading platform ( Multilateral trading facility or MTF), created by nine major investment banks in 2008. The aim was to provide dealing services at a 50% discount to traditional exchanges. It is a hybrid system that allows trading both on and off traditional exchanges. The system was advertised as a "pan-European platform based in London".
Turquoise is a 2009 Belgian- Turkish drama film written and directed by Kadir Balcı about the identity crisis experienced by three Turkish brothers who return to the Belgian city of Ghent after they bury their father in Istanbul. The film, which went on nationwide release across Belgium on , was selected for the 16th London Turkish Film Festival.
Turquoise is a solo album by Devon Allman, released on February 12, 2013. It features Yonrico Scott on drums (Allman's band-mate in Royal Southern Brotherhood) and Myles Weeks on bass, and includes guest musicians Luther Dickinson, Samantha Fish, Ron Holloway and Rick Steff.
"Turquoise" is a song written and recorded by British singer-songwriter Donovan. The "Turquoise" single was released in the United Kingdom on October 30, 1965 through Pye Records (Pye 7N 15984) and charted, peaking at No.30. The "Turquoise" single was backed with " Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)" and only released in the United Kingdom. "Turquoise" was released as the b-side on " To Try for the Sun" in the United States. Interesting use of vibes in that song, played by
"Turquoise" marked a significant drop-off in Donovan's UK chart success compared to the top 10 successes of " Catch the Wind" and " Colours" and the " Universal Soldier" EP. While "Catch the Wind" and "Colours" have appeared in various formats throughout Donovan's catalogue, live versions and re-recordings of "Turquoise" are conspicuously absent.
The relative lack of success in the United Kingdom was most likely the reason leading to Hickory Records selecting " You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" as Donovan's next single in the United States. Hickory Records later released "Turquoise" as the b-side to " To Try for the Sun" and made it the opening track to their 1966 compilation The Real Donovan. The 45 was one of the records in John Lennon's jukebox.
The song was written about Donovan's friend Joan Baez, with whom he claimed he was in love. Baez recorded a version of the song in 1967 (album: Joan).
The lyric begins:
“''Your smile beams like sunlight ''On a gull’s wing; and the leaves ''Dance and play after you; ''Take my hand and hold it ''As you would a flower; ''Take care with my heart, Oh darling: She’s made of glass.”Turquoise is a gemstone.
Turquoise may also refer to:
- Turquoise (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
- Turquoise (color)
- New Mexico State Road 14, incorporating the Turquoise Trail
- Turkish Riviera, aka Turquoise Coast
- The Turquoise (novel), a 1946 novel by Anya Seton
- "Turquoise" (song)
- Turquoise ribbon
- Turquoise (trading platform), European equities trading platform
- Turquoise (film), a 2009 film
- Turquoise (album), a 2013 album by Devon Allman
Turquoise (1825–1846) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who won the classic Oaks Stakes at Epsom Downs Racecourse in 1828. In a racing career which lasted from April 1828 until April 1830 she ran eighteen times, winning eleven races and finishing second on five occasions. As a three-year-old in 1828 she failed to attract a bid after winning a claiming race at Newmarket but then created an upset by winning the Oaks at odds of 25/1. She went on to prove herself a leading stayer, winning three more races before the end of the season. In 1829 she won five more races including three walkovers when no horses appeared to challenge her. She was retired after a single unsuccessful run in 1830.
Usage examples of "turquoise".
Instead of handles or straps, however, they sported a profusion of black tentacles, dozens and dozens of tentacles, every second or third one of which ended in a moist turquoise eye shielded by a pair of the sweepingest eyelashes Manship had ever seen outside of a mascara advertisement.
She looked around the room, her eyes lingering briefly on Drosos whose hair was still wet from the baths and who wore turquoise silk and a pallium of silver and lavender.
They left the studio and settled on a sort of divan before a long low window in one of her front rooms, and sat looking out at a sunset of stunning photochemical complexity, an astounding apocalyptic Wagnerian thing: enormous bold jagged streaks of scarlet and gold and green and violet and turquoise warring frantically with each other for possession of the sky above San Francisco.
The background was harsh plutonic hillside, where grass of a pale yellowish turquoise grew between dark boulders.
So did he take fruit of every color, never suspecting that the red ones might be rubies, carbuncles, hyacinths, corals, or camelians, nor the white ones diamonds, pearls, nacre, or moonstones, nor the green ones emeralds, beryls, jade, prase, or aquamarine, not to mention those many varieties of blue, violet, yellow, and various unknown colors and the fact that they might be sapphires, lapis, turquoise, amethysts, jaspers, topaz, amber, agates, opals, hematite, tourmaline, peridot, and chrysoprase.
As Quent went out Miss Appleby flew past in a whirl of turquoise silk.
He could see Katherine Craig in the pool, taking dives from the high board, and he idly admired the beautiful slow arch of her body, snug in a bright, shimmery orange and yellow bathing suit, flying out like a tropical bird, outlined first against the dazzling blue dome of the sky and then the brilliant, black-lined turquoise bottom of the pool.
Mr Spang, and then he walked out through the glass door into the hot stuffy night and over the lawns to the Turquoise building and let himself into his room and locked the door behind him.
When Woolsey looked up, two turquoise and silver earrings swayed with the movement.
Violet Bathurst, lying in my arms under the silver and turquoise canopy of my bed, that I confessed my misery at my failure with art.
Behind its regency exterior there was a fitness suite, chiropody and massage rooms, a beauty salon and a warm turquoise pool surrounded by palm trees.
One of the vines that clawed its way around the trunk of the tallest tree, whose crown was out of sight among the other vegetation, had cuplike flowers of ivory pink, attracting hordes of small turquoise insects.
There were a couple racks of postcards, film, instant cameras, bare necessity fishing supplies at outrageous prices, Minne-tonka moccasins, rubber tomahawks for the kids, risk-kay joke gifts built around gags older than my Uncle Phil, Indian turquoise jewelry made in the Philippines.
God only knew what over the blades of the Amazon sword plant, settling on the Madagascar lace where the recent wave of immigrants seemed to have thinned considerably since their arrival as a glittering turquoise discus passed trailing a shred of black skirt from its jaws and the sea horses, gliding past the walls of the castle with all the diminutive rectitude of the knights of King Richard the Lionhearted raising the siege at Acre, only for it to fall once again to the gleaming ranks of the Saracens a century later ending the last Crusade and, with it, the kingdom of Jerusalem, were now nowhere to be seen.
The deep metallic blue vest embroidered with silver and the short Mauresque jacket spangled and sewn with turquoises became her wonderfully.