Meaning of Carbuncle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
   archaic
2. A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
3. An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection.
4. An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore.

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Examples

“With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus […]”

“And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.”

“His turban, or mandil [mandīl], was of finest white silk interwoven with gold, bestudded with pearl[s] and carbuncles; […]”

“A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed.”

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