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单词 turquin
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turquinn.

Etymology: < French turquin (= Spanish turqui, Portuguese turqui), < Italian turchino (medieval Latin turchīnus) blue, < Turco Turkish. Different reasons are assigned for the use of the adjective to designate ‘blue’. In sense 1 the meaning of ‘Turkish’ may be preserved.
Obsolete. rare.
1. A dark-green pumpkin.After obsolete. French pompon Turquin (Cotgrave).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > pumpkin
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pompion1526
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turquin1600
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kabocha1884
sugared pumpkin1884
sugar-pumpkin1905
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trombone1946
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1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xxxix. 250 Some of them are called Turquins, as those which haue a very greene colour and drawing somwhat toward a blacke.
2. A bluish-grey or slate-coloured marble.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > marble > others
Florentine marble1706
Carraraa1728
rosso antico1730
giallo antico1741
campan1794
dolomite1794
ruin marble1798
turquin1811
picrite1814
landscape marble1816
snow1848
Irish green1850
palombino1859
Tennessee marble1875
corallite1883
stalagmite marble1895
Piastraccia1909
1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 412 A singular marble is still known to be found at Sitifi, in the north of Africa, being the proper turquin, because, like the turquois, it is supposed to be brought from a country subject to the Turks. It is of a bluish grey, or slate colour, with spots of siderite or horn~blende.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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