Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A pale to deep red or reddish-brown variety of clear chalcedony, used in jewelry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A siliceous stone, a variety of chalcedony, of a deep-red, flesh-red, or reddish-white color. It is tolerably hard, capable of a good polish, and is used for seals, etc. The finest specimens come from Cambay (hence also called
Cambay stones ) and Surat, in India, where they are found as nodules of a blackish-olive color, in peculiar strata, 30 feet below the surface. The nodules, after two years' exposure to the sun, are boiled for two days, and thereby acquire the beautiful colors for which they are prized. - n. The beautiful red or reddish color of this stone. The distinctive colors of Cornell University are cornelian and white.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy A hard, reddish brown chalcedony; used in jewelery,
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) A variety of chalcedony, of a clear, deep red, flesh red, or reddish white color. It is moderately hard, capable of a good polish, and often used for seals.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony
Etymologies
- The red form was called carneolus in the Middle Ages, from Latin carneus "fleshy" after the color. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English corneline, from Old French, from cornel, cornel, from Latin cornus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The orange stone is sometimes referred to as carnelian agate as, held up to the light, it exhibits the parallel banding typical of agates.”
“The carnelian is a siliceous stone and a species of chalcedony.”
“The gold of the ring is massive at the face, making a strong setting for the carnelian, which is engraved with the figure of a female bearing corn and fruit.”
“Nubia also prospered from the export of gold, copper, and semiprecious stones such as carnelian, jasper, and amethyst, which it possessed in great quantity.”
“Agates of the finest types, such as carnelian and sard, come principally from Brazil and from India.”
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
“The people speak of an Akík ( "carnelian") which, rubbed down in vinegar, enters into the composition of a favourite philtre -- we could not, however, find any for sale.”
“The Sacral chakra, on top of the pelvis, matches the color orange, as in crystals such as carnelian, sunstone or calcite.”
“Though the Egyptians possessed gold and silver in abundance, their use of rubies, emeralds, diamonds, etc., was extremely limited; they used colorful stones like carnelian and turquoise instead.”
“Ranging from scarlet to carnelian to a kind of raspberry-magenta blend, they would have induced psychosis in any self-respecting interior designer.”
The Huffington Post: Richard (RJ) Eskow: Debate on a Strange Red Planet
“I'll find myself going through my stash of an evening, pulling some of these here, and those over there, and don't I have some small carnelian donuts, and and and... 6 hours later, there's this thing done with stone and glass and wire and I had no idea when I started it, what it was going to be.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘carnelian’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Reds
crimson, blood, scarlet, rott, rojo, brick, fire engine, vermilion, carmine, burgundy, amaranth, alizarin and 115 more...
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Uncommon Colours
azure, myrtle, periwinkle, viridian, jade, emerald, lime, chartreuse, asparagus, celadon, harlequin, olive and 147 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Blood Meridian: The Words
Words from Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian"
argosy, ossuary, thaumaturge, devonian, ristras, chartvail, catafalque, suzerain, argonauts, unrectified, surbated, pyrolatrous and 86 more...
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RED
red dyes, pigments, etc., names for red
mucicarmine, zoonerythrin, sindoor, minium, vermilion, brazilin, rose madder lake, quinacridone, haematin, erythrosin, eurhodin, nuclear fast red and 8 more...
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Red
ruby, crimson, maroon, lava, fiery, rosewood, scarlet, rose, auburn, apple, blood, flaming and 10 more...
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Colors
Different words for colors; ex: florid, cerise, claret, etc.
cerise, florid, claret, chartreuse, watchet, argent, tawny, xanthous, rosaceous, ocher, pewter, coquelicot and 3 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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color me mauve
color words
albescent, ecru, eggshell, mauve, taupe, ochre, ashen, goldenrod, gamboge, cream, saffron, mustard and 109 more...
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wanderstar's Words
superlative, mulish, mumps, catatonic, aquiline, clandestine, phantasmagoria, chryselephantine, microfiche, mutineer, reprobate, ruthless and 312 more...
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Pale Fire
Words gathered while reading Pale Fire.
larches, torquate, stillicide, vermiculate, preterist, theolatry, iridule, vulgarian, cloutish, lemniscate, torsion, trillium and 176 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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