| 单词 | paragon stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparagon stone 4. Originally: a perfect diamond (also figurative). Now: spec. one weighing more than 99 carats. Also more fully †paragon stone.In quot. 1631 used figuratively to describe a person. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > fine or perfect diamond paragon1558 brilliant1690 naïf1892 river1916 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount i. f. 94v Take Cristall, or paragon stone [Fr. pierre paragone]. 1573 Treat. Arte of Limming 9 Take a beade of Christall or a Paragon stone. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 75 The fassets must be industriously wrought, which in great stones of 10 or 12 Carrats maketh them to be Paragons, that is to say, in all perfection. 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse iii. iv. 177 in Wks. II H'is no great, large stone, but a true Paragon, H'has all his corners. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 213 The Diamond..Without Spots or Foulness, is called a Paragon-stone. 1863 R. Chambers Bk. of Days I. 484/1 Only six very large diamonds (called paragons) are known. 1965 J. Y. Dickinson Bk. Diamonds viii. 215 Paragon... In sixteenth-century Europe this meant any diamond weighing more than 12 carats; today only a perfect or flawless diamond of more than 99 carats is properly given this title. < as lemmas |
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