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Meaning of star sapphire | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A sapphire exhibiting asterism.

Examples

But a great wonder of this chamber, and a marvel to behold, was how the capital of every one of the four-and-twenty pillars was hewn from a single precious stone, carved by the hand of some sculptor of long ago into the living form of a monster: […] there a star sapphire the colour of moonlight, cut for a cyclops, so that the rays of the star trembled from his single eye: […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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