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US
/ˈæmɪθɪst/
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[ UK /ˈæmɪθˌɪst/ ]
[ UK /ˈæmɪθˌɪst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- of a moderate purple color
NOUN
- a transparent purple variety of quartz; used as a gemstone
How To Use amethyst In A Sentence
- B.C.,) the Dynasty in which lived the Amen-em-hats and the Usertsens, the great early art period of the Egyptian empire, [26] the Egyptians engraved on amethyst, jasper and rock crystal, and at that early period did some of the most beautiful work remaining to us of their glyptography. Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.
- Overhead, in the amethyst dusk above the Viennese Altstadt, Steel City was an evening star.
- The amethyst is a brilliant transparent stone of a purple colour resembling that of diluted wine and varying in shade from the violet purple to rose. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- Two fifteenth-century icons set in beaten silver, studded with amethyst and quartz.
- This season's purple make-up hues are equally exhilarating: intense amethyst, fig and crushed mulberry, to name a few.
- The depictions of birds and flowers were executed in precious materials including lapis lazuli, agate, Sicilian red and green jasper, chalcedony, amethyst and quartz as well as superb hard stones.
- The province is also endowed with other non-traditional minerals including nickel, feldspar, emerald, limestone, granite, amethyst, sodalite and syenite.
- Quartz is colourless when pure but minute amounts of impurities or lattice imperfections give rise to varieties such as amethyst, cairngorm, rose quartz, and smoky quartz.
- Amethyst, sapphire blue and green color lenses are magnificent on women with dark skin.
- Beautiful silver earrings hang from the points of her ears, encrusted by black diamonds and deep purple amethysts.