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sapphirine

[ saf-er-in, -uh-reen, -uh-rahyn ]

adjective

  1. consisting of sapphire; like sapphire, especially in color.


noun

  1. a pale-blue or greenish, usually granular mineral, a silicate of magnesium and aluminum.
  2. a blue variety of spinel.

sapphirine

/ ˈsæfəˌriːn; -rɪn /

noun

  1. a rare blue or bluish-green mineral that consists of magnesium aluminium silicate in monoclinic crystalline form and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks
  2. a blue variety of spinel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. relating to or resembling sapphire
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sapphirine1

1375–1425; late Middle English saphyryn (< Old French ) ≪ Greek sappheírinos like lapis lazuli ( sapphire, -ine 1 ); sapphirine ( def 2 ) < German Saphirin Greek, as above
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Example Sentences

Whatever there was in the bit of sapphirine blue, it had life.

In spiders they are often of a sapphirine colour, and clear as crystal.

He would have taken her hand on this, but the grave, direct gaze of her sapphirine eyes restrained him.

Her sapphirine eyes were shining, her hands lay inert in her lap, her lips quivered softly.

Ghosts—ghosts—the sapphirine air Teems with them even to the gleaming ends Of the wild day-spring!

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