NOUN
- a mineral consisting of sulfides of copper and iron that is found in copper deposits
How To Use peacock ore In A Sentence
- He made the gesture that Mrs. Frost called debonnaire -- read on for five minutes in silence, insisted on teaching his aunt the cause of the colours in peacock ores, compared them to a pigeon's neck, and talked of old Betty Gervas's tame pigeons; whence he proceeded to memories of the days that he and Mary had spent together, and asked which of their old haunts she had revisited. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1
- The names of the ores of copper point to gentle Venus qualities: azurite, malachite, turquoise, chalcopyrite and peacock ore.