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

Still, as strung together by Sondheim’s diamantine songs, “Company” offered a groundbreaking way of looking at its subject, less through a microscope than a kaleidoscope.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021

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 subterranean flames roared and crackled; the hills were shaken to their centre; the caves were heaving in their depths, and fresh, glittering, golden, diamantine lumps came ever gushing from the fused and seething mass.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 by Various