diamantine

British  

/ ˌdaɪəˈmæntaɪn /

adjective

1. of or resembling diamonds

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Etymology

Origin of diamantine

C17: from French diamantin, from diamant _diamond

Example Sentences

Undergirding all the rhetorical exuberance is a diamantine core of accuracy.

From Scientific American • Jun. 23, 2023

I located the diamantine intensities in so many of her poems, which are as vital and influential in their way as Sylvia Plath’s or Elizabeth Bishop’s.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2020

Every surface has a diamantine glitter, an effect accentuated by the starlight glow of thousand of smartphones in the audience.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2017

Her score for “Jackie”—intensely new, intensely different, intensely felt—will be competing against Justin Hurwitz’s score for the musical “La La Land,” a work of diamantine pastiche.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 23, 2017

The screw is placed in the ordinary polishing triangle and the flat face at a polished on a tin lap with diamantine and oil.

From Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology by Anonymous