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- noun Plural form of
almandine .
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Examples
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Browning, 'Fefine at the Fair', xv., "that string of mock-turquoise, these 'almandines' of glass".]
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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The most common practice is to call all garnets of a purplish-red color "almandines."
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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