smoky topaz

noun

Jewelry.

1. smoky quartz used as a gemstone: not a true topaz.

Word History and Origins

Origin of smoky topaz¹

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

Claudia looked at her guide’s skin and thought of smoky topaz: November, her mother’s birthstone.

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Didst mark the ghostly gold of this grave, still, Conceited minnow thro' these twisted roots, Thrust o'er the smoky topaz of this rill, Dull-slumbering here?

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My last specimen was a smoky topaz of mild, dark transparency.

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“That's a smoky topaz,” said Nikolay Parfenovitch, smiling.

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His complexion was pale olive, through which the red of his cheeks shone, in the words of some Oriental poem, "like a rose-leaf through oil"; and his eyes, in their dark fire, were more lustrous than smoky topaz.

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