Meaning of cairngorm | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A precious stone of smoky yellow-brown or gray-brown color, used in Scottish jewellery.
   countable, uncountable
2. The Cairngorms.
   attributive

Examples

“And then he led away the talk to their home in Devonshire, and the red, bright earth, and the deep-green combes, and the peat streams like cairngorm pebbles, and the wild moor with its high, cloudy tors for a giant background to the picture[…].”

“a Cairngorm resident”

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