Crossword-Solution: CABOCHON
We have 10 clues for the answer “CABOCHON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DOMED form | 1 answer |
| Gem that's been polished but not faceted | 1 answer |
| Gem without facets. | 1 answer |
| Polished gemstone | 1 answer |
| Polished uncut stone | 1 answer |
| Uncut gem | 1 answer |
| Unfaceted gemstone | 1 answer |
| gemstone cut | 4 answers |
| A HIGHLY POLISHED GEM THAT IS CUT CONVEXLY BUT WITHOUT FACETS | 10 answers |
| Gem | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CABOCHON (5)
They shone like nine gigantic cabochon cut sapphires; they ranged from palest, watery blue up through azure and purple and down to a ghostly mauve shot with sullen undertones of crimson.
But evidently under the belief that practice makes perfect, and regardless of coming shortness of breath, the lad kept on thrusting away, so intent upon his work that he did not bear the faint smothered click as of a latch behind him, nor note a white hand from one of whose fingers glistened dully the stone _en cabochon_ of a big ruby ring.
But on clear days, unfortunately rare, the blue sky was Mediterranean, and at such times the bergs out at sea would flash like jewels in the full blaze of the sunshine, while blocks of dark green ice, half buried in snow under shadow of the cliffs, would appear for all the world like _cabochon_ emeralds dropped into a mass of whipped cream.
The surfaces of these tubes reflect light so as to produce a six-pointed star effect, especially when the stone is properly cut to a high, round cabochon form, whose base is parallel to the successive layers of tubes.
Sapphires and rubies of minute tubular internal structure frequently display a beautiful six-pointed star when cut to a round-topped cabochon shape and exposed to direct sunlight or to light from any other single source.
Quotes with CABOCHON (2)
When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough.
Sir Ector looked into the fire, fidgeting with something in his pocket. "I have something for you," he said at last. "It was your mother's." And he drew out the thing in his pocket and held it up to her. The ring Blanche took from him was antique silver, cabochon-set with a glimmering moonstone. Her mother's ring! Blanche folded it into her hand and held tightly to the only thing her parents had left her.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1957–2018).