Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a sapphire; intensely blue.

Etymologies

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sapphire +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The radiant butter-gold layers of rock and gas combined with the lakes which glistened sapphirelike through breaks in the cloud cover to make the planet more than ever resemble the Terran insect for which it had been named.

    The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • The radiant butter-gold layers of rock and gas combined with the lakes which glistened sapphirelike through breaks in the cloud cover to make the planet more than ever resemble the Terran insect for which it had been named.

    The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • The radiant butter-gold layers of rock and gas combined with the lakes which glistened sapphirelike through breaks in the cloud cover to make the planet more than ever resemble the Terran insect for which it had been named.

    Tar Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean 1972

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