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claw setting

British

noun

US equivalent: Tiffany setting. a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs

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He looked at Cornelia’s ungloved left hand resting upon the dark cushions—she wore a ring, a wide, flat band of gold, with one fine diamond standing far out, in a claw setting.

From Flaming June by Gilbert, A.

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