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diamonds

/ˈdaɪ(ə)məndz/ noun B1
  1. One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♦.
  2. The testicles. (slang)
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First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 59 · B2
It's the King of Diamonds.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 39 · B2
They are what I used to think diamonds were like.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 93 · C1
The waiting man pulled out a handsome watch, the lids of it set with small diamonds.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 23 · C1

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