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  • noun Plural form of garnet.

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Examples

  • The somewhat less dense, and less hard blood red garnets are properly called "_pyrope garnets_"

    A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade

  • His genius, though, is his work with unusual combinations of stones and settings — spinels, Mandarin garnets, African tourmalines (see the mine-cut necklace, for $150), and yellow sapphires.

    Coolhunter: Taffin Tina Gaudoin 2010

  • The garnets are a particularly deep and limpid red, like Our Savior’s blood.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • "garnets," and "glacial markings" the amateurs went off and made many finds on the moraines, and the specimens were cached in heaps, to be later brought home by the dogs, some of which were receiving their first lessons in sledge-pulling.

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

  • We hope that all people will work together in order to apply these laws, "said Al - Shadioh, pointing to the importance of publicizing the plight of the rhinoceros and encouraging the use of alternatives such as garnets in the Dhjambias industry to protect the rhino from extinction.

    Yemen Observer 2009

  • We hope that all people will work together in order to apply these laws, "said Al - Shadioh, pointing to the importance of publicizing the plight of the rhinoceros and encouraging the use of alternatives such as garnets in the Dhjambias industry to protect the rhino from extinction.

    Yemen Observer 2009

  • We hope that all people will work together in order to apply these laws, "said Al - Shadioh, pointing to the importance of publicizing the plight of the rhinoceros and encouraging the use of alternatives such as garnets in the Dhjambias industry to protect the rhino from extinction.

    Yemen Observer 2009

  • Jeweled cages, cages of gold and silver, copper and brass; cages set with rubies and garnets like blood fresh and spilled, set with emeralds like leaves in summer.

    Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009

  • Sometime later it was renamed the Ruby River after the gems found along its length, which turned out not to be rubies, but garnets.

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

  • Sometime later it was renamed the Ruby River after the gems found along its length, which turned out not to be rubies, but garnets.

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

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