TURQUOISE; TURQUOIS

n.

1 definition — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


n.

A hydrous phosphate of alumina containing a little copper; calaite. It has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface. [Formerly written also turcois, and turkois.]


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