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Definition of Jacinths
1. jacinth [n] - See also: jacinth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacinths
Literary usage of Jacinths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"It had the face of a man, bat the cheeks of а horse; its eyes were like jacinths,
but brilliant as the stars ; it had the wings of an eagle, spoke with the ..."
2. An Essay Towards a System of Mineralogy by Axel Frederic Cronstedt (1788)
"... found of a colour not inferior to the true jacinths. The author had not, ...
a jacinth and a garnet at all/ but buy and fell the garnets for jacinths, ..."
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