| 单词 | turquoise miner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasturquoise miner a. Simple attributive ‘of turquoise’: as turquoise bead, turquoise colour, turquoise enamel, turquoise gem, turquoise mine, turquoise miner, turquoise treasure, turquoise work, turquoise working. Π 1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass 56 This [sea] salt so calcin'd, keep to make a Blew or Turcois colour. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. at Turcois The pale blue of the natural turcois gem. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. at Turcois Turcois enamel. 1766 Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 21 Copper..gives the torquois colour to white glass. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxx. 177 Three blue tubercles, like..little turquois beads. 1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 195 Their wealth..Of gold and ivory, Of turquoise-earth and amethyst. 1876 S. Birch Rede Lect. Egypt 20 Magarah and its turquoise treasures had been lost. 1877 W. R. Cooper Short Hist. Egypt. Obelisks (1878) iv. 16 The copper and turquoise miners of the Wady Magari. 1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) 323 Many ancient turquois workings are found in the neighborhood. 1896 G. M. Stisted True Life R. F. Burton xv. 377 The Land of Midian is still wealthy; turquoise mines exist. 1906 Outlook 30 June 881/2 In common, doubtless, with the Sinai Bedawys, the Egyptians worshipped the Goddess of the Turquoise.] 1906 Outlook 30 June 881/2 That..the worship of the Turquoise goddess [was] non-Egyptian in nature. 1908 Church Times 20 Mar. 392/2 Turquoise and Indian Work for..Zenana Mission. < as lemmas |
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