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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