α. Middle English pirope, 1500s– pyrop, 1600s pirop, 1600s– pyrope.
β. 1500s piropi (plural), 1500s piropus, 1500s pirpus, 1500s pyropo, 1500s–1800s pyropi (plural), 1500s–1800s pyropus.
单词 | pyrope |
释义 | pyropen.α. Middle English pirope, 1500s– pyrop, 1600s pirop, 1600s– pyrope. β. 1500s piropi (plural), 1500s piropus, 1500s pirpus, 1500s pyropo, 1500s–1800s pyropi (plural), 1500s–1800s pyropus. 1. Any red or fiery gem, such as a ruby or carbuncle. In later use poetic. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > less identifiable gems > [noun] > red or orange stone carbuncleeOE jacounce?a1366 pyropec1400 anthracites1535 jacinth1555 vermilion-stone1703 pigeon's blood1865 c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 5673 (MED) Swich is þis addres kyndlyng—Preciouse stones..Jacynkte, piropes, crisolites, Safyres. a1500 in J. Evans & M. S. Serjeantson Eng. Mediaeval Lapidaries (1933) 54 (MED) Saramoyd is a precyous ston..& yis ston schynes as it wer byrnynge; & it is lyk a ston yt is cleped pirope. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Biiij Piropi (whiche are a kind of Rubies or Carbuncles). 1593 G. Peele Famous Chron. King Edward the First sig. L Pirpus hardned flames did neuer reflect, More hidious flames then from my brest arise. 1625 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Noe in tr. Part of Du Bartas 154 Two pyrops are her eyes Or flaming carbuncles. 1651 T. Vaughan Lumen de Lumine 11 It was the Basis to a firie Pyramid, a Trigon of pure Pyrope. 1755 W. Huggins & T. H. Croker tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso I. x. 136/2 The walls thereof in value were more rare Than if of diamond or pyropus made. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc ii. 84 Rubies and amethysts..With the gay topaz,..and the emerald's hue, And bright pyropus. 1840 R. Browning Sordello vi. 411 Cool citrine-crystals, fierce pyropus-stone. 1859 Russell's Mag. 5 80 Three stones are grouped,—an onyx triple hued, And..A crimson pyrope set in emerald. 1948 R. Graves Coll. Poems 1914–47 237 He carved his law on tables of sapphirus, Jerusalem shines with his pyrope gates. 2. Mineralogy. A deep red variety of garnet containing magnesium and aluminium. More fully pyrope garnet.Pure pyrope has the formula Mg3Al2(SiO4)3. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > garnet > [noun] > varieties of carbuncle stonec1300 alabandinec1400 rock ruby1544 ruby rock1562 almandine1601 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 > others allochroite1801 pyrope1804 cinnamon-stone1805 colophonite1808 succinite1816 topazolite1819 hessonite1820 greenlandite1823 polyadelphite1829 vermeil1884 rhodolite1898 hibschite1907 plazolite1920 kimzeyite1958 majorite1970 1804 Edinb. Rev. 3 301 The pyrop, which has lately exfoliated from the class of garnets, has no difference but superior beauty. 1805 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals 26 Roundish grains, as in pyrope. 1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 267 The original pyrope is the kind containing chrome. 1910 Daily Chron. 25 Mar. 3/2 There are also examples of the associated minerals, including pyrope, commonly known as Cape rubies, both rough and cut. 1959 Times 31 Oct. 9/5 Four..types of garnets interest the collector..the red varieties pyrope and almondine being the most popular. 1976 Nature 8 Apr. 517/2 In the Elie Ness vent, high pressure pyroxenes and pyrope garnets indicate rapid elevation from depths in excess of 60 km. 1998 Canad. Geographic Jan. 52/2 Under the microscope, the tiny grains are glittering stones... The mauve grains are pyropes... The orange one is an eclogitic garnet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400 |
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