cairngorm
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cairngorm
1785–95; short for Cairngorm stone, i.e., stone from Cairngorm Mountains
Example Sentences
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Rising, she pinned a cairngorm brooch at her neck, and went down to dinner.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
She wore her best black dress and her lace collar with the big cairngorm brooch; for the minister and his wife were expected to tea.
From Treasure Valley by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
"Where the McKay is, the Key of the World lies hidden in his sporran," he laughed back at her over his shoulder where the clan plaid fluttered above the cairngorm.
From In Secret by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Their fronts are hidden by hangings of tartan cloth; the windows are decked with sporrans, dirks, cairngorm plaid-brooches, ram's-head snuff-boxes, bullocks' horns and skean dhus.
From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Archibald Forbes
At this moment the jeweler returned with some half dozen brooches displayed on a plate, and shining with all the brilliancy of cairngorm stones, polished silver and variously-colored pebbles.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various
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