almandine, n.
(ˈælməndɪn, ˈælmənˌdaɪn)
Also 7 amandine.
[a corruption of the earlier alabandine. See the change in Phillips below. Sometimes by false form-assoc. written almondine.]
‘An alumina iron garnet of a beautiful violet or amethystine tint; the word is said to be a corruption of Pliny's alabandine, a term applied to the garnet from its being cut and polished at Alabanda.’ Westropp Prec. Stones 1874.
| 1658 Phillips, Alabandine, a kind of stone, that provokes to bleed. [Almandine not mentioned.] 1678 Ibid., Alabandine or Amandine, a kind of blew and red Stone, which very much excites to bleeding. [Also a cross-ref.] Almandine, see Alabandine. 1696 Ibid., Almandine, or Alabandine, a sort of Ruby softer and lighter than the oriental. [Alabandine not separately entered.] 1706 Ibid., Almandine, a coarse sort of Ruby, etc. [Alabandine not entered at all.] 1804 Edin. Rev. III. 304 Karsten constituted some varieties of the noble garnets into almandines. c 1825 Beddoes Crocod. in Poems 108 With sanguine almandines and rainy pearl. 1830 Tennyson Merman 32 But I would throw to them back in mine Turkis and agate and almondine. 1872 Browning Fifine 13 That string of mock turquoise, those almandines of glass. |