coral

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Several girls bid for the coral, and Maggie, who had not raised her voice since she secured the sealskin jacket, once more noticed the greedy glitter in Rosalind's eyes I can't help it," she said, turning and speaking in a low voice to Priscilla, who stood by her side-- "I can't help it, Prissie; I don't want that coral a bit-- coral doesn't suit me: I dislike it as an ornament.

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  1. noun A rocklike deposit consisting of the calcareous skeletons secreted by various anthozoans. Coral deposits often accumulate to form reefs or islands in warm seas.
  2. noun Any of numerous chiefly colonial marine polyps of the class Anthozoa that secrete such calcareous skeletons.
  3. noun The red-orange, pinkish, or white deposits secreted by corals of the genus Corallium, used to make jewelry and ornaments.
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  • The walls were of pure coral, and all about the doors and windows were shells of every variety of colour and form. —  Seven Little People and their Friends
  • The brunette had a great string of coral, the blonde of amber, round her throat. —  New Italian sketches
  • As the ship rose and fell in the swell, the trees alternately disappeared and came into sight; and, on getting nearer, a coral island hove in view; it consisted of a ring a quarter of a mile or so in width, with a lagoon in the centre. —  The Three Commanders
  • "We fight to-night down at our coral islands at seven," he said Oh my bwave Cywil!" —  An Australian Lassie
  • She ran through the bush and arrived breathless at that part of her grandfather's fence which ran past their coral islands. —  An Australian Lassie
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin corallium, from Greek korallion.

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  1. Early modern English also corall, corral, corrall, from Middle English coral, from Old French coral, French coral, corail = Provencal coralh = Spanish Portuguese coral = Italian corallo = Dutch koraal = German koralle = Danish koral = Swedish korall = Old Bulgarian koralya = Servian kraliyesh, kralish = Polish koral = Russian koralíki, korallŭ, dial. krali, = Lithuanian koralus, karelkis = Lett, krele = Hungarian kolaris, klaris, from Late Latin corallum (New Latin corallium), Latin corallius, properly coralium, curalium, from Greek κοράλλιον, Ionic κουράλιον, coral, especially red coral; ult. origin uncertain.
 

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