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- noun Archaic form of
turquoise .
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Examples
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Fernando Po, Bavaria, and Cornwall; phosphates of manganese; phosphate of copper; yellow and green uranite; phosphates of alumina, including the blue spar, which has been mistaken for lapis-lazuli, and the phosphate of alumina known as turquois, found only in Persia, and esteemed as an ornament.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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A distinction is also made between “hard possessions,” such as turquois and coral beads, shell ornaments, and all articles made from hard substances, and “soft possessions,” which comprise blankets and all textile substances, skins, etc.
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What would you say the estimated price of a piece of rare turquois sea glass is?
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I picked it up and discovered it was a piece of turquois sea glass, not only that, but that it was pretty rare.
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What would you say the estimated price of a piece of rare turquois sea glass is?
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I wore a turquois Monah Li slipdress with a t-shirt, that I had turned into a corsett-like cardigan.
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And the shallow natural lake that looks turquois green in the morning?
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005
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I HAVE sometimes been asked why I wear an odd little turquois ring — which to the uninstructed eye appears quite valueless and altogether an unworthy companion of those jewels which flash insultingly beside it.
Uncle Silas 2003
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The pavement is of marble, tesselated with turquois-like bricks.
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Turkey; the turquois is also found in various parts of Europe, as
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