tiger's eye
See also: tiger's-eye
English
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Noun
tiger's eye (plural tiger's eyes)
- A chatoyant gemstone that is usually yellow- to red-brown, with a silky lustre.
- 1913 June, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter I, in O Pioneers!, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, part I (The Wild Land), page 11:
- Every one noticed her eyes; the brown iris had golden glints that made them look like gold-stone, or, in softer lights, like that Colorado mineral called tiger-eye.
Translations
chatoyant gemstone
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