chrysoprase
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chrysoprase
1250–1300; Middle English < Latin chrȳsoprasus < Greek chrȳsóprasos, equivalent to chrȳso- chryso- + prás ( on ) leek + -os noun suffix
Example Sentences
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He turned parkas and anoraks and bathrobes into entrance-making opera cloaks in ruby, shocking pink and chrysoprase.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2021
The yielding phrase Ye shape Is clay, not chrysoprase.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred
Impetuous as a torrent's speed White horses raced this watery mead, With manes of chrysoprase aflowing, Each neighing loud to its neighbour steed.
From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)
On his way homeward each of these puddles reflected the cold, pure light of the dying day, until Prospect Place might have been a street in the New Jerusalem, paved with jasper, beryl, and chrysoprase.
From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
She was not going to ask him how he came to be so mighty wise about chalcedony and chrysoprase and sardonyx, about which she herself either never knew or had forgotten.
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
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