单词 | crystal mine |
释义 | > as lemmascrystal mine crystal mine n. a mine from which crystal, esp. rock crystal, is obtained. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other mines crystal mine1600 metal pita1603 salt mine1669 copper-grove1702 wad-mine1747 1600 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 361 Three score leagues vp to the Northwest from Saint Helena are the mountaines of the golde and Chrystall Mines, named Apalatci. a1798 T. Pennant Tour on Continent (1948) 117 Stop't at an old crystal mine at the edge of the mountain. 1819 Gentleman's Mine Sept. 253/1 It was announced that a crystal mine had been discovered in France, near Vie, in Lorraine. 1960 Art Bull. 42 136 The drapery is cubistically broken up almost as if an earthquake had disturbed a crystal mine. 2008 Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (Nexis) 20 July d12 At Mount Ida's crystal mines you crouch, moving your head up, down and side to side to catch the sun glinting off a six-faceted point in globs of clay. < as lemmas |
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