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- noun Poetic See
amianthus .
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- noun poetic, dated
amianthus
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Examples
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The ancient city is often mentioned by geographers, chiefly on account of its beautiful marble and its amianth obtained from Mount Oche.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Most beautiful marble of various colours is to be found, and also enormous quantities of mica and amianth; porphyry and porphyroid granite, carbonated and hydroxided iron, argillaceous schist, mica schist.
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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