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colored stone

American  

noun

Jewelry.
  1. any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.


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Mariana Makramalla is usually hunched over a table, snipping small pieces of colored stone with pliers in her family’s mosaics workshop in the western Jordan town of Madaba.

From Washington Times Apr. 30, 2020

Tier upon tier of colored stone ribbed with twinkling metal rose like the bulge of a gigantic layer cake.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each page of the book has its verbal delights, but it is doubtful if Cusack has made a true mosaic of his brilliant bits of colored stone.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had noticed with a terrible pang of fear that the drops were falling on a face, depicted in tiny pieces of colored stone.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

Rings set with colored stone flashed on his fingers.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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