aventurinen.
/əˈvɛntjʊərɪn/ 1. A brownish-coloured glass interspersed with small gold-coloured spangles, manufactured first at Murano, near Venice. Also called artificial aventurine, aventurine glass, gold flux.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > ornamental glass-work > [noun] > glass-colouring > other decorative or coloured glass
haematinon1706
ruby glass1757
gold stone1769
aventurine1811
ruby1839
millefiori1849
schmelz1849
Venetian filigree1852
Bristol1880
favrile1902
Schmelzglas1904
overlay1940
1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 461 With an effect resembling aventurine.
1883 W. Williams in Gentleman's Mag. July 94 Aventurine..is a kind of glass of a pale brownish colour, brown pink I should call it. Bedded and suspended in this are innumerable brilliant gold-like spangles.
2. transferred. A variety of quartz, spangled with yellow scales of mica, resembling the preceding in appearance.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > aventurine
venturine-stone1775
aventurine1858
goldy-stone1860
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > cryptocrystalline quartz > chert > aventurine
venturine-stone1775
aventurine1858
goldy-stone1860
1858 Tennant Catal. Brit. Foss. 77 Earthy Minerals—Rock Crystal, Amethyst, Cairngorm, Avanturine.
1861 C. W. King Antique Gems (1866) 63 The true Aventurine, or Goldie-stone..takes a high polish.
1863 H. Watts Dict. Chem. I. 476 Aventurin or Avanturin.
3. The colour or appearance of aventurine.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > golden yellow
goldOE
gold colour1547
goldness1657
goldishness1671
aventurine1791
goldenness1829
gilding1851
orange-gold1859
buttercup yellow1863
old gold1871
red-gold1884
Tuscan1887
honey1981
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. iii. vii The wax is coloured..for aventurine or gold-colour with orpiment.
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aventurine feldspar n. a mixture of oligoclase and orthoclase spangled with yellowish or reddish crystals.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > feldspar > mixed or intergrowth feldspars
jade1595
granitone1811
saussurite1811
aventurine feldspar1816
perthite1843
myrmekite1911
aventurine sunstone-
1816 P. Cleaveland Elem. Treat. Mineral. & Geol. 269 Aventurine Feldspar..contains little spangles or points, which reflect a brilliant light.
aventurine glass n. (see 1).
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1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 277 Aventurine glass owes its golden iridescence to a crystalline separation of metallic copper from the mass coloured brown by the peroxide of iron.
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aventurine glaze n. a glaze for porcelain which produces a similar gold-spangled brown colour.
aventurine quartz n. (see 2).
aventurine sealing-wax sealing-wax of a translucent brown colour speckled with gold.
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1900 R. Kipling in Daily Express 29 June 4/6 In one hand he held a stick of avanturine sealing-wax, and in the other a..seal.
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aventurine sunstone n. = aventurine feldspar n.
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