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balas-ruby en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A rose-coloured spinel once thought to be a type of ruby.
    • Richard II had a coat, valued at thirty thousand marks, which was covered with balas rubies. 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 120:
    • In shape it is a tiny square box of silver, studded outside with eight small balas-rubies. 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Bisara of Pooree”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 171:

Forms

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Translations (7)

es balaje (variety of ruby) · it balascio (variety of ruby) · fr rubis balais (variety of ruby) · es balaj (variety of ruby) · la balascus (variety of ruby) · de Balas-Rubin (variety of ruby) · fa بدخش (variety of ruby)