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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of dolomite: so called because of its pearly luster.
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Here are two very characteristic examples; one is good quartz, living with good pearl-spar, and the other, wicked quartz, living with wicked pearl spar.
The Ethics of the Dust John Ruskin 1859
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