sard

American

[sahrd] / sɑrd /

noun

a reddish-brown chalcedony, used as a gem.

sard British

/ ˈsɑːdɪəs, sɑːd /

noun

Also called: sardine. an orange, red, or brown variety of chalcedony, used as a gemstone. Formula: SiO 2

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Etymology

Origin of sard

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin sarda < Greek sárdios sardius

Example Sentences

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In the city, Yoren had loaded up the wagons with salt fish, hard bread, lard, turnips, sards of beans and barley, and wheels of yellow cheese, but every bite of it had been eaten.

From Literature

We shall have no plate except of gold and an ivory couch inlaid with jasper, or perhaps with sard.

From Project Gutenberg

The finer specimens of the Aegean gems are engraved with the wheel and the point in hard stones, such as chalcedony, amethyst, sard, rock-crystal and haematite.

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The Hebrew odem was probably a red stone, either carnelian, sard or jasper.

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Among the minutely crystalline varieties of quartz we have the clear red, which should be called "carnelian," the brownish-red "sard," the green "chrysoprase," the leek green "prase," and the brighter green "plasma."

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