Jul. 5th, 2007

cabochon

Jul. 5th, 2007 07:26 am
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cabochon - n. a precious stone of convex oval form that is polished but not cut into facets.


Also adjective and adverb extensions. Wikipedia has examples, as does Google images. From French, from Old North French, augmentative of caboche, head, at which point we get a cross-reference to cabbage.

---L.

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