Definitionadj. of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them
Last update: August 14, 2015
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His skill as a working lapidary was very great; and he prepared a number of lenses of garnet and other precious stones, which he preferred to the achromatic microscopes of the time. [Please select]
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At times we encounter splendours which the imagination of a lapidary would not venture to depict. [Please select]
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Stephen Dedalus watched through the webbed window the lapidary's fingers prove a timedulled chain. [Please select]
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And so was Lockwood, the lapidary, famous as a designer of medals and seals; and many more such oddities. [Please select]
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I thought that here was the most wonderful example of the lapidary's art which I had ever met with, east or west. [Please select]
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The metallic marvels of the Buprestis and the Ground-beetle; the amethyst, ruby, sapphire, emerald and topaz of the Humming-bird; glories which would exhaust the language of the lapidary jeweller: what are they in reality. [Please select]
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In them the fabric was a framework for the display of the lapidary or the ceramic art--a garment destroyed, rent, or tattered by time and chance, leaving the bones still strong, but bare. [Please select]
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