Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as citrine, 1.

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Examples

  • Rich urns, with heaters, containing hot spiced wines, prepared with honey, smoked on the boards of costly citrean wood, intermixed with crystal vases filled with the rarest vintages of the Falernian hills, cooled and diluted with snow-water.

    The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832

  • a circular table of dark-grained citrean wood, inlaid with ivory and silver, were several rolls of parchment and papyrus, the books of the day, some of them splendidly emblazoned and illuminated; a lyre of tortoiseshell, and near to it the slender plectrum by which its cords were wakened to melody.

    The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832

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