ˈtable ˈdiamond
[f. table n. 18 + diamond.]
A diamond cut with a table or large flat upper surface surrounded by small facets; esp. a thin diamond so cut having a flat under surface.
| 1470 N.C. Wills (Surt. 1908) 56 A ringe of gold with table dyamond. 1519 Lett. & P. Hen. VIII, III. No. 463 (P.R.O.) A black carkeyn with a syphre..garnysshed with three table diamauntes, oon losenge diamaund, oon great poynted diamaunt. 1607 in Heriot's Mem. App. vii. (1822) 212 A ringe, with a table diamond on the head. 1750 D. Jeffries Diamonds & Pearls 58 The manufacture of Table and Rose Diamonds. 1833 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 6 The forms into which the diamond is cut are the brilliant, the rose, and the table. 1877 W. Jones Finger-ring 379 A ring with seventy-five table-diamonds, set in gold. |