diamantine

IPA: daɪʌmˈæntin

adjective

  • Consisting of or resembling diamond.
  • (obsolete) Hard as diamond, adamantine.
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Examples of "diamantine" in Sentences

  • The result is diamantine and must be heard to be believed.
  • The polishing is effected by means of diamantine and alcohol.
  • The united age of this crown - diamantine couple amount to _one hundred and seventy-eight years_!
  • The final polish can soon be imparted by means of a small boxwood slip, or flattened peg-wood, and diamantine and alcohol.
  • Glittering on the seventh parapet, on a plinth of gold and diamantine, sat the vessel itself, a perfect sphere of shiny silvery metal.
  • Mine had made roses of the sweetest hue bloom on Catherine's cheeks and strewn into the flowery blue of her eyes drops of diamantine dew.
  • The subterranean flames roared and crackled; the hills were shaken to their centre; the caves were heaving in their depths, and fresh, glittering, golden, diamantine lumps came ever gushing from the fused and seething mass.
  • There was that about Count Giraldi, a diamantine brilliancy, a something hard and crystalline, a positiveness, an incisiveness of view and reflection, which on first acquaintance decided me not to take him into my confidence.
  • He could see, rearing up above the waves, the spires and minarets and twisted towers and diamantine domes, and even, in the misty height, the very palace of the High Shivantak—and the whole image ghostly, fringed with refractive rainbows.

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