Cairngorm
name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A precious stone of smoky yellow-brown or gray-brown color, used in Scottish jewellery. countable, uncountable
"And then he led away the talk to their home in Devonshire, and the red, bright earth, and the deep-green combes, and the peat streams like cairngorm pebbles, and the wild moor with its high, cloudy tors for a giant background to the picture[…]."
- 2 a smoky yellow or brown quartz wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 The Cairngorms. attributive
"a Cairngorm resident"
Example
More examples"And then he led away the talk to their home in Devonshire, and the red, bright earth, and the deep-green combes, and the peat streams like cairngorm pebbles, and the wild moor with its high, cloudy tors for a giant background to the picture[…]."
Etymology
So called because found among the Cairngorms, a mountainous region in Scotland.