avanturine
English
Noun
avanturine (countable and uncountable, plural avanturines)
- Alternative form of aventurine
- 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “Gareth and Lynette”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], OCLC 1066791046, page 73:
- [F]rom out the silken curtain-folds / Bare-footed and bare-headed three fair girls / In gilt and rosy raiment came: their feet / In dewy grasses glisten'd; and the hair / All over glanced with dewdrop or with gem / Like sparkles in the stone Avanturine.
- 1882, Christopher Dresser, “The Lacquer Manufactures”, in Japan: Its Architecture, Art, and Art Manufactures, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., OCLC 457983777, pages 346–347:
- During this period of two centuries little colour was employed in the lacquer-work, but much gold was used; and those particular kinds of work in which "clouded" gold effects, avanturines, and tesselated gold are introduced, as well as low-relief modelling of a most perfect kind, were invented and brought to a high state of perfection.
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Further reading
- “avanturine”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.
- David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Avanturine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.