What is "turquoises"

Usage examples of "turquoises".

Coral was imported and the best turquoises came from Persia and China but there was also native turquoise.

Women wore necklaces, sometimes of huge amber beads, charm boxes, strings of seed-pearls hanging from the left shoulder in a broad swathe to the end of which necklaces were attached and belts, such as the British Museum's example, of cruciform design made with silver links and ornamented with a panel of turquoises where the three lengths joined.

Officials wore one of a prescribed kind from the left ear: long and narrow, with a pearl in the middle and turquoises above and below, except that the lower pointed end was required to be an imitation (8).

There were also splendid feather mantles and headdresses, exquisitely carved emeralds, amber, turquoises, and other jewels, including an extravagant quantity of our holy jadestones.

It was in the afternoon that I sent her off in a little chair, the two Turquoises walking alongside.

The state bed of Sobieski, King of Poland, was made of Smyrna gold brocade embroidered in turquoises with verses from the Koran.

The top was one round, shining ruby, and eight inches of the handle below it were studded with rough turquoises close together, giving a most satisfactory grip.

Around her frail neck she wore a necklace of turquoises as a charm against the evil eye.