star sapphire

English

Noun

star sapphire (plural star sapphires)

  1. A sapphire exhibiting asterism.
    • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3:
      But a great wonder of this chamber, and a marvel to behold, was how the capital of every one of the four-and-twenty pillars was hewn from a single precious stone, carved by the hand of some sculptor of long ago into the living form of a monster: […] there a star sapphire the colour of moonlight, cut for a cyclops, so that the rays of the star trembled from his single eye: […]
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