table-cut

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noun A form in which precious stones, especially the emerald and other colored stones, are sometimes cut, having a large table or front face, with beveled edges, or a border of small facets.
Having a very large table, with the edge of the stone cut with a single bevel or in a number of small triangular facets, or forming in some way a mere frame to the table.

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A parcel of old-fashioned rose and table-cut things.

She Stoops to Conquer 2004
A parcel of old-fashioned rose and table-cut things.

Act the Third 1909
A table-cut diamond is set within an oval rim, acting as a lid to a small case opening by means of a spring, and revealing a portrait of Charles executed in enamel.

Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture 1840
The heart-shaped table-cut diamond is nestled within a red stone and has a jade mount with smaller table-cut diamonds.

NYT > Home Page By SHIVANI VORA 2011
The heart-shaped table-cut diamond is nestled within a red stone and has a jade mount with smaller table-cut diamonds.

NYT > Home Page By SHIVANI VORA 2011
A parcel of old-fashioned rose and table-cut things.

She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith 1752