fire opal
English
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[edit]fire opal (plural fire opals)
- Any transparent to translucent opal with a warm body colour of yellow, orange, or red.
- 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 2:
- […] the body of each high seat was a single jewel of monstrous size: the left-hand seat a black opal, asparkle with steel-blue fire, the next a fire-opal, as it were a burning coal, the third seat an alexandrite, purple like wine by night but deep sea-green by day.
Synonyms
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[edit]reddish opal
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