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Cairngorm

name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Cairngorms. attributive

    "a Cairngorm resident"

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a smoky yellow or brown quartz wordnet

Etymology

So called because found among the Cairngorms, a mountainous region in Scotland.

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