Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An area which yields diamonds from its superficial deposits: as, the diamond-fields of South Africa.
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Examples
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"Dear fellow, how? where? unless one discovers a _mine_ or an African diamond-field?"
April's Lady A Novel Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
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But the Orange Free State derived a permanent advantage, quite unique and more than compensating the apparent set-back suffered by the loss of the diamond-field territory and by British intervention in the Basuto war matter, in that the method of those procedures saddled England with the responsibility of guaranteeing the internal safety of the State from those hitherto unprotected borders "altogether at her own cost."
Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked C. H. Thomas
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A mining engineer told me that in Martapura, the principal diamond-field, one may find gold, platinum, and diamonds while washing one pan.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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"diamond-field fever," and was supposed to be a malady peculiar to the neighborhood.
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