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- noun Plural form of
carat .
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Examples
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The weight of the diamond, as every one knows, is estimated in carats all over the world.
Diamonds and Pearls 1969
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The weight of the diamond, as every one knows, is estimated in carats all over the world.
Diamonds and Pearls 1861
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The galérie just now was scattered with the husband's appliances for making Périque tobacco into "carats" -- the carat-press.
Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884
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He said the diamond was nearly 2.5 carats, which is why he was still on the field an hour after practice scanning the grass.
Kendall Langford, Dolphin, Loses $50K Earring At Practice (VIDEO) 2010
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He said the diamond was nearly 2.5 carats, which is why he was still on the field an hour after practice scanning the grass.
Kendall Langford, Dolphin, Loses $50K Earring At Practice (VIDEO) 2010
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He said the diamond was nearly 2.5 carats, which is why he was still on the field an hour after practice scanning the grass.
Kendall Langford, Dolphin, Loses $50K Earring At Practice (VIDEO) 2010
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Set with a detachable pear-shaped fancy intense yellow diamond weighing 42.13 carats, which is suspended from a pear-shaped diamond.
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Colored diamond ring set with a modified square-cut fancy pink diamond weighing 5.25 carats, which is flanked on either side by a trapeze-cut diamond, mounted in 18 karat rose gold and platinum.
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These are the products in which the Indians pay their tributes, and in nothing else -- except some who pay them in taes of gold, of eighteen carats, which is that obtained in those islands, and which is worth eight reals.
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"Let's see," he exclaimed, "the Hesse-Weimar diamond is two-thirds of a hen's egg in size, and weighs 295 carats, that is to say, larger than the Koh-i-noor, the famous Indian diamond, one of the crown jewels of England."
A Royal Prisoner Pierre Souvestre 1894
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