Definitions
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- adjective having the color of garnet
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Examples
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I had at the least twelve suits of clothes; three richly embroidered with gold, two laced with silver, a garnet-coloured velvet pelisse lined with sable; one of French grey, silver-laced, and lined with chinchilla.
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Riccio, attired in garnet-coloured satin, had taken his place among them with ease.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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Riccio, attired in garnet-coloured satin, had taken his place among them with ease.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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Happy, too, is he who finds the lilies-of-the-valley clustering about the chestnut boles upon the Colma, or in the beechwood by the stream at Macugnaga, mixed with garnet-coloured columbines and fragrant white narcissus, which the people of the villages call
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Happy, too, is he who finds the lilies-of-the-valley clustering about the chestnut boles upon the Colma, or in the beechwood by the stream at Macugnaga, mixed with garnet-coloured columbines and fragrant white narcissus, which the people of the villages call
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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I had at the least twelve suits of clothes; three richly embroidered with gold, two laced with silver, a garnet-coloured velvet pelisse lined with sable; one of French grey, silver-laced, and lined with chinchilla.
Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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During an exclusive interview with the Star, the Dalai Lama spoke in English and wore his familiar garnet-coloured monk's robes.
Thestar.com - Home Page Rick Westhead 2010
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Its oldest buildings and factories might be built from the same quarried limestone and garnet-coloured brick as ours.
Thestar.com - Home Page Karen Von Hahn 2010
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The purple or garnet-coloured quartz is next in quantity; lies fcattered in exceed - ing fmall grains, and flrikes fire when ftruck with a fteel.
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