† alaˈbandine Obs.
Also 4 alabaunderryne, alabraundyne.
[a. L. alabandīna (sc. gemma), f. Alabanda a city of Caria.]
1. A precious stone known to the ancients; now called almandine.
| c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B. 1471 Alabaunderrynes, & amaraunȝ. 1366 Mandeville xx. 219 The rede [gems] ben of Rubies & of Grenaȝ & of Alabraundynes. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xiii. (1495) 558 Alabandina is a precious stone clere and somdeale red. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest 2 b, The Gem Alabandine..is somewhat more rare, and in colour cleare. 1658 Phillips, Alabandine, a kind of stone, that provokes to bleed [ed. 1678 Alabandine or Amandine; ed. 1706 Almandine only]. |
2. A synonym of alabandite.