ruby
noun
a red variety of corundum, used as a gem.
ruby-like
-
a word derived from
ruby.
Example Sentences
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Here is what you can’t see from the rear mezzanine of a theater: the flocked velvet, the ruby-like rhinestones, the layered fabrics that shape a lush rosette atop each dance pump.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
A small quantity of the oxide of gold tints glass pink, but the colour becomes extremely rich and ruby-like, when a larger quantity of the oxide is employed.
From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux
Then in an instant all were gone and that lovely, glowing plain was empty, save for myself seated on the ruby-like stone, weeping tears of blood and shame and loss within my soul.
From She and Allan by Henry Rider Haggard
It is, however, a pretty plant, especially when studded with its ruby-like flowers, which look like coloured Daisies growing upon a dense tuft of hairs.
Far off, on the slope of a low, bordering hill, the red doors of a barn glowed ruby-like in the transfiguring sun.
From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
