Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
turquoise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Turquoise.
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- noun Archaic form of
turquoise .
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Examples
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Okay, nao we replays teh hedbones, an add teh turkois 50s baving cap wif pink n yellol flowrs.
Dis wittle piggy - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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A serpent bracelet a la Cleopatre, enamelled black, with a turkois on its head.
Diamonds and Pearls 1969
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A bracelet with a row of Mexican chain, and a gold ring set with a turkois and fastened to the bracelet by a Venetian chain.
Diamonds and Pearls 1969
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A bracelet with wrought links burnished on a dead ground; the clasp a heart of burnished gold with a turkois in the centre, graven with Hebrew characters.
Diamonds and Pearls 1969
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"She of the turkois eyes and flaxen ringlets, for a hundred pistoles!"
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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Satan, that the turkois eyes and flaxen ringlets were the text of all this snivelling humanity! '
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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The precious beads of shell, turkois, coral, or black stone, varied occasionally with small univalves from the ocean, are bound over all with a cotton cord.
Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45 Frank Hamilton Cushing 1878
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Hunters, save that it is more elaborate and is sometimes supplied with a minute heart of turkois bound to the side of the figure with sinew of the Mountain Lion, with which, also, the arrow-point is invariably attached, usually to the back or belly.
Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45 Frank Hamilton Cushing 1878
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It is formed from basaltic clay of a grayish-blue color, and is furnished with an arrow-point of jasper (jasp vernis), upon which, is laid a small fragment of turkois, both secured to the back of the specimen with sinew taken from the animal represented.
Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45 Frank Hamilton Cushing 1878
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Plate VIII, Fig. 5, represents, in compact yellow limestone, the speckled Eagle (K'iä′-k'iä-li sú-tchu-tchon-ne) of the Upper regions, the drab color of the body being varied by fragments of pure turkois inserted into the eyes, breast, and back.
Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45 Frank Hamilton Cushing 1878
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