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Definition of Karats
1. karat [n] - See also: karat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Karats
Literary usage of Karats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gems by Helen Barlett Bridgman (1916)
"The Florentine weighs 133>i karats. Another Russian Crown jewel, ... Its weight
is disputed, but is given by Max Bauer, who ought to know, as forty karats. ..."
2. Hall Marks on Gold and Silver Plate by William Chaffers (1905)
"The Marc of the finest or pure gold contains 24 karats. ... Goldsmiths are
compelled to work gold of the standard 22 karats, with a remedy of a quarter of a ..."
3. The History of Mount Mica of Maine, U.S.A. and Its Wonderful Deposits of by Augustus Choate Hamlin (1895)
"a pink one, weighed 18 karats. The upper half of the crystal was sound in structure
excepting à few cracks which marred the exterior, and here and there ..."
4. Holland of To-day by George Wharton Edwards (1909)
"After that the Premier Mine, as it was named, became a record-breaker, yielding
a number of stones about three hundred karats, two above two hundred karats, ..."
5. The Educational Significance of Sixteenth Century Arithmetic from the Point by Lambert Lincoln Jackson (1906)
""A man had three qualities of gold, the first contained 15 marcks, each marck
containing 15 karats 3 grains, the second contained 21 marcks ..."
6. An Essay on the Ancient Weights and Money, and the Roman and Greek Liquid by Robert Hussey (1836)
"Bodin reckoned it to contain but —J-,,-th part alloy P. Patin speaks of having
found it to be above 23 karats 16 grains (23-| kar.) fine 1. ..."
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