单词 | oriental turquoise |
释义 | > as lemmasoriental turquoise a. A precious stone found in Persia (now Iran) ( true turquoise or oriental turquoise), much prized as a gem, of a sky-blue to apple-green colour, almost opaque or sometimes translucent, consisting of hydrous phosphate of aluminium. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > phosphates > [noun] > hydrous aluminium or copper turquoise1398 Turkey1487 Turkish stone1577 Turkey stone1607 turquoise stone1796 agaphite1819 chalchuite1843 henwoodite1876 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > turquoise > [noun] turquoise1398 Turkey1487 Turkish stone1577 Turkey stone1607 turquoise stone1796 α. Middle English–1600s turkeis, Middle English–1600s turkeys, 1500s turkeies, turquays, turkese, turkies, 1600s turcais, torqueis, turquies, -quize, turchis, turkkis; 1500s– turkis, 1600s– turkise (both now archaic). β. Middle English–1500s turkes, Middle English–1600s turques, (Middle English torcas, Middle English–1500s Scottish turcas, 1500s turkas, torchas, turcasse, tourques, turquez, toorkes, turquesse, turkesse), 1500s–1600s turches.1478 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 6 A ryng gold with a torcas.1488 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 81 Item, a ryng with a turcas.1501 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 91 A ryng of gold wt a toorkes set in.1511–12 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 331 Ane ruby, ane turkas.1513 Will of Robert Fabyan in R. Fabyan New Chrons. Eng. & France (1811) Pref. p. vii A ryng of gold, sett wt a turques, a dyamaunt, and a ruby.1518 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 8 A rynge of golde with a stone in hit callede a turkes.1527 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 244 Unum annulum cum le torchas.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 282/1 Tourques a precious stone, tourquois.1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Bv A..stone. comprehendeth in it self, A Saphire, A Rubie, A Christal, A Turkas.1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 209 No Diamonde, no Saphire, no Rubie, no Christall: no Turcasse, no Emerode.1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 235v Turquesses are founde in Exer a place of Siech Ismael.1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 23 The Turches or Turcois, is of the common sort called Eranus... It is called a Turches for that it is onely found in Turkland or amongst the Turkes.1599 Warning for Faire Women i. 217 You wear a pretty turkesse there, methinks.1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 107 The Turches being worne in a Ring.1625 R. Withers tr. O. Bon Grand Signors Seraglio i, in S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. ix. xv. 1583 A Bason and Ewre..of massie Gold, set with Rubies and Turkesses. 1688 [see α. ]. γ. 1500s turkoise, 1500s–1600s turquoys, turcoyse, turquoies, 1500s–1700s turcois, 1600s–1700s turcoise, ( turchois), 1600s–1800s turkois, (1700s torquois, turkquoise, 1800s tourquois), 1500s– turquoise, -ois.1567Turcois [see β. ]. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvii. viii. 619 The best Turquois is that which approcheth nearest to the grasse green of an Emeraud. 1607 [see sense 1b]. 1631 [see sense 1b]. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. i. 55 Chrystall..will receive impression from steele, more easily then the Turchois.a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 166 The Compassionate Turcoise confesseth the Sickness of his Wearer by changing colour.1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iii. 63 Turkois.1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 755 Turkoises are no where found but in Persia.1679 London Gaz. No. 1418/4 Lost..a Ring with a large Turquoies of the Old Rock, very good colour.1747 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 429 This Stone has received its..Name of Turchesia, and Turquoise, from its being most commonly brought from Turky.1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 96 The small brown hand..is laden with pearls, diamonds, and turquoises.1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvi. xcvi. (Bodl.) lf. 183 b/2 De Turtogis. Turtogis that hatte Turkeis also is a ȝelow white stone and haþ þat name of the contrey of Turkeis. Þis stone kepeþ and saueþ þe siȝt and bredeþ gladnes and comforte. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 36 I beqwethe to the said Dame Margarete a doubyl ryng departyd of gold with a ruby and a turkeys. ?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. bb.iv Of vertuous turkeys there was a cheyr. c1530 Court of Love xii There lacked than, nor emerald so grene, Balais, Turkeis, ne thing to my devise. 1545 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 226 A rynge of golde with a turquays. a1597 R. Wrag in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 306 Orient perles & great Turkeses. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. i. 113 Out vpon her,..it was my Turkies, I had it of Leah when I was a Batcheler. View more context for this quotation 1605 B. Jonson Sejanus i. i. 37 True, as Turkise in the deare Lords ring, Looke well, or ill with him. View more context for this quotation 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 642 It is more like to be the turkeis..the turcais is of a blewish metalline colour. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Turkise, a precious stone of a silke blew colour. 1637 J. Milton Comus 31 The azurne sheene Of turkkis blew, and Emrould greene. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 71 Bracelets of Turkises and of gold likewise. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 40/2 The Turches or Turky stone..some call it Eranus, others Turcois or Torqueis. 1694 J. Strype Memorials T. Cranmer iii. i. 308 They seized..a good Turkeys and a Diamond. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 35 The turf was rich in plots that look'd Each like a garnet or a turkis in it. 1877 W. Jones Finger-ring Lore 158 The turquoise, turkise, or turkey-stone having..been supposed to possess talismanic properties. a1913 S. Vines Hotel 16 in Oxf. Poetry 154 Sapphires and amethysts and wicked Turkises. < as lemmas |
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