Definitions
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- (Min.) A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See
spinel .
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- noun archaic A
rose -tinted spinel .
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- noun a pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel
Etymologies
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Old English bales, balais, French balais, Latin balascus, from Arabic balakhsh, so called from Badakhshan, Balashan or Balaxiam, a place in the neighborhood of Samarcand, where this ruby is found.
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