Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, yellow and semi-transparent with a glassy luster, as the ocelli of certain insects and the eyes of some spiders.
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- adjective Resembling
topaz , especially in colour
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I cry out again, for the way is long, and the sun sinking, -- sinking in the softest imaginable glow of topazine light.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Vapours enchant the distances, bathing peaks in bewitchments of blue and grey of a hundred tones, transforming naked cliffs to amethyst, stretching spectral gauzes across the topazine morning, magnifying the splendour of noon by effacing the horizon, filling the evening with smoke of gold, bronzing the waters, banding the sundown with ghostly purple and green of nacre.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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