amethyst
/ɛm-/ noun C1- A transparent purple to violet variety of quartz with traces of manganese, used as a gemstone.
- A purple colour.
- The tincture purpure, when blazoning by precious stones.
Plural amethysts
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“I took the amethyst brooch,” said Anne, as if repeating a lesson she had learned.
It would be so much easier to imagine I was the Lady Cordelia if I had a real amethyst brooch on.
Diana and I make necklaces of roseberries but what are roseberries compared to amethysts?
This child had taken and lost her treasured amethyst brooch and now sat there calmly reciting the details thereof without the least apparent compunction or repentance.
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