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- noun Plural form of
lapidary .
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Examples
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And from all parts of the empire, there were assembled great numbers of skilled stonecutters (sangtarash) , lapidaries (munabbatkar) , and inlayers (parchingar) , each one an expert in his art, who commenced work along with other craftsmen.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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And from all parts of the empire, there were assembled great numbers of skilled stonecutters (sangtarash) , lapidaries (munabbatkar) , and inlayers (parchingar) , each one an expert in his art, who commenced work along with other craftsmen.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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And from all parts of the empire, there were assembled great numbers of skilled stonecutters (sangtarash) , lapidaries (munabbatkar) , and inlayers (parchingar) , each one an expert in his art, who commenced work along with other craftsmen.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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If we consider that pre-Columbian lapidaries used stone, bone, wooden, and possibly copper tools with abrasive sand to carve stone, crystal skulls are much too perfectly carved and highly polished to be believed.
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They invented and named the alembic al-anbiq, chemically analyzed innumerable substances, composed lapidaries, distinguished alkalis and acids, investigated their affinities, studied and manufactured hundreds of drugs.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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They invented and named the alembic al-anbiq, chemically analyzed innumerable substances, composed lapidaries, distinguished alkalis and acids, investigated their affinities, studied and manufactured hundreds of drugs.
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The O.E.D. found cleavage to have made its appearance in 1816 about the mechanical division of crystals “sometimes called cleavage by lapidaries” cutters of gems, nothing to do with lap-dancing.
Archive 2007-08-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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They went likewise to see the drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance; how the lapidaries did work; as also the goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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They went likewise to see the drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance; how the lapidaries did work; as also the goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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We're all good lapidaries, though Faith is cleverest in cutting.
The Chronicles of Pern McCaffrey, Anne 1993
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