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Definition of Girasols
1. girasol [n] - See also: girasol
Lexicographical Neighbors of Girasols
Literary usage of Girasols
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mexican Resources: A Guide to and Through Mexico by Frederick Albion Ober (1884)
"The girasols display emerald tints upon a basic color of fiery red. ... In the
first are found the girasols, or fire-opals, though mixed with others, ..."
2. Travels in Mexico and Life Among the Mexicans by Frederick Albion Ober (1887)
"In the same morning one can obtain precious opals, arlequines; tire-opals,—girasols
de fuegos, — semi-opals, etc. The precious opals are found both opaque ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1854)
"It is one of those plants that draw their very life from the light, turning to
it ever as the girasols do to the sun. There now, that's very well placed ..."
4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"This he did, Slender tubes of glass are first prepared, called girasols ; a term
applied to opal, and sometimes to the stone called cat's eye, ..."
5. The Story of My House by George Herman Ellwanger (1890)
"with handles of jade, agate, and ivory, constellated with garnets, turquoises,
corals, and girasols; long, narrow, large, curved; of all forms, ..."
6. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1874)
"These opals are of the first quality, and of all varieties—the milk opals, the
fire opals, girasols or " harlequins," with various kinds of richest precious ..."
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