Tooltip Categories: Stones
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Ruby
Translation: Robijn Description: a valuable precious stone varying in colour from deep crimson or purple to pale rose red, now recognized as a variety of corundum; it can also refer…
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Agate
Translation: Agate Description: an ornamental stone consisting of a hard variety of chalcedony (cryptocrystalline quartz), typically banded or otherwise variegated in colour (OED). Variants: agatam, aegatie, agatten. VARIANTS: none identified.…
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Amber
Translation: Brantsteene Description: a hard, translucent fossilized resin, typically yellow, orange, or brown in colour, used for jewellery and ornaments since ancient times and also in perfumery and traditional medicine…
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Amethyst
Translation: Amatiste Description: quartz of a violet or purple variety, regarded as a precious or semi-precious stone (OED). VARIANTS: amatist, amerant, ametist, ammatist, amatisten. TYPES: (1) amethist oriental, oriental amethyst…
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Cat Eye
Translation: Kat oog Description: a precious stone, a variety of chalcedonic quartz, very hard and transparent, which, when cut en cabochon, displays, when held to the light, a peculiar floating…
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Coral
Translation: Coralijne Description: a hard calcareous substance consisting of the continuous skeleton secreted by many tribes of marine cœlenterate polyps for their support and habitation. Historically, and in earlier literature…
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Cornelian
Translation: Cornalijne Description: a variety of chalcedony, a semi-transparent quartz, of a deep dull red, brownish-pink, or reddish white colour (OED). VARIANTS: coralijn, cormalyn, cornalijnen, carolinen. TYPES: (1) rooden cornalyn,…
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Crystal
Translation: Christeleijne Description: any naturally occurring mineral that is clear and transparent like ice, often a form of quartz (OED). VARIANTS: cristallen, christal. TYPES: (1) witte cristal, white crystal. Catalogue…