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单词 almandine
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almandinen.

Brit. /ˈalməndiːn/, /ˈalməndʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈɑ(l)mənˌdin/, /ˈæ(l)mənˌdin/
Forms: 1600s amandine, 1600s– almandine, 1800s almondine (nonstandard).
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French almandine, alamandine.
Etymology: < Middle French almandine (1562 in Du Pinet: compare quot. 1601), variant of Old French, Middle French, French alamandine (12th cent.) < post-classical Latin Alabandina alabandine n. Compare earlier alabandine n.In successive editions of Phillips the form alabandine is gradually replaced entirely by almandine :1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Alabandine, a kinde of blue, and red stone, provoking to bleed. [Almandine not mentioned.]1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Alabandine or Amandine, a kind of blew and red Stone, which very much excites to bleeding.1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Almandine, see Alabandine.1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Almandine, or Alabandine, a sort of Ruby softer and lighter than the oriental. [Alabandine not separately entered.]1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Almandine, a coarse sort of Ruby, etc. [Alabandine not entered at all.]In form almondine probably by association with almond n.; similar association with almond n. may also have encouraged earlier use of the word, in place of alabandine n. (compare forms at almond n.).
A kind of garnet with a violet tint. Also almandine garnet. Cf. alabandine n. 1, almandite n.
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rock ruby1544
ruby rock1562
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rocky ruby1694
pyrope garnet1804
alamandine1805
cinnamon-stone1805
colophonite1808
carbuncle1816
grossular1819
topazolite1819
hessonite1820
uvarovite1837
spessartine1850
almandite1854
andradite1868
spessartite1868
vermeil1884
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > nesosilicates > [noun] > garnet > almandite
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1601 P. Holland in tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvii. vii. 616 (margin) These are called yet by Lapidaries, Alabandines, or Almandines.
1746 J. Hill in tr. Theophrastus Περι τον ΛιΘον Βιβλιον 46 (note) The Almandine; a Stone of a middle Nature, between the Ruby and Garnet. This is the Alabandicus of Pliny, and probably the Milesian Carbuncle of our Author.
1804 Edinb. Rev. 3 304 Karsten constituted some varieties of the noble garnets into almandines.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Merman 32 But I would throw to them back in mine Turkis and agate and almondine.
1835 S. Wilkin Sir T. Browne's Wks. II. 358/2 (note) The almandine garnet, or carbuncle of the ancients.
a1849 T. L. Beddoes Poems (1851) I. 108 With sanguine almandines and rainy pearl.
1948 R. M. Pearl Pop. Gemol. iii. 145 Roman gem engravers were fond of this garnet, known popularly as almandine but preferably as almandite, and from it they carved some superb cameos.
1959 Times 31 Oct. 9/5 The writer owns a beautiful aigrette of rose-cut diamonds and purple almandine garnets.
1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 29 (caption) Garnet is principally andradite in mafic metavolcanic rocks, almandine in minor pelitic rocks,..and grossular in metacarbonate rocks.
2010 Church Times 17 Dec. 24/1 A..gold-plate brooch with almandine insets that look like pomegranate seeds..is only 5.3cm in diameter, but it blazes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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