cairngorm
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cairngorm
1785–95; short for Cairngorm stone, i.e., stone from Cairngorm Mountains
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Rising, she pinned a cairngorm brooch at her neck, and went down to dinner.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
For ten long minutes they stood talking, driving poor Gimblet to the desperate expedient of entering the shop and demanding a closer acquaintance with the cairngorm.
From The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story by Mrs. Charles Bryce
The beryl green and the cairngorm brown Of the day through the deep leaves sifted down.
From The Garden of Dreams by Madison J. Cawein
Serpentine abounds in several places, especially at Portsoy, where it is known as 'Portsoy marble', and Scotch topazes or cairngorm stones are found on the mountains in the south.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
She had a ribbon of the MacGregor tartan on her cap, and an uncompromising cairngorm fastened her fichu of valuable point lace.
From The Golden Silence by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
