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sapphirine
[ saf-er-in, -uh-reen, -uh-rahyn ]
adjective
- consisting of sapphire; like sapphire, especially in color.
noun
- a pale-blue or greenish, usually granular mineral, a silicate of magnesium and aluminum.
- a blue variety of spinel.
sapphirine
/ ˈsæfəˌriːn; -rɪn /
noun
- a rare blue or bluish-green mineral that consists of magnesium aluminium silicate in monoclinic crystalline form and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks
- a blue variety of spinel
adjective
- relating to or resembling sapphire
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sapphirine1
1375–1425; late Middle English saphyryn (< Old French ) ≪ Greek sappheírinos like lapis lazuli ( sapphire, -ine 1 ); sapphirine ( def 2 ) < German Saphirin ≪ Greek, as above
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Example Sentences
Whatever there was in the bit of sapphirine blue, it had life.
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In spiders they are often of a sapphirine colour, and clear as crystal.
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He would have taken her hand on this, but the grave, direct gaze of her sapphirine eyes restrained him.
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Her sapphirine eyes were shining, her hands lay inert in her lap, her lips quivered softly.
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Ghosts—ghosts—the sapphirine air Teems with them even to the gleaming ends Of the wild day-spring!
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