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Etymology
From Latin hammochrȳsos, (h)ammochrȳsus, from Ancient Greek ἀμμόχρῡσος (ammókhrūsos), from ἄμμος (ámmos, “sand”) + χρῡσός (khrūsós, “gold”).
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Noun
hammochrysos (uncountable)
- A certain stone with spangles of gold color in it, known to Pliny, perhaps golden mica or yellow mica schist.
1905, Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters, page 375:Nearly everything was glass in the frontage of this fairy mart, and its contents glittered like the hammochrysos stone.
1914, William Rose Benét, The Falconer of God: And Other Poems, page 64:A splendid curtain, silver-sewn,
Spangled like hammochrysos stone
Stood in a crypt that dripped delight,
His ear-drums pulsing with that sound
The sheeted waters in their might
Flung to the crags, to mock their thrall.
- 2015, Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated), Delphi Classics, page 73:
- Hammochrysos resembles sand in appearance, but sand mixed with gold.
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