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margarite
[ mahr-guh-rahyt ]
noun
- Mineralogy.
- a gray, pink, or yellow mica, occurring in brittle monoclinic crystals.
- an aggregate of small, rudimentary crystals resembling minute globules in a row: found in glassy volcanic rocks.
- Obsolete. a pearl.
margarite
/ ˈmɑːɡəˌraɪt /
noun
- a pink pearly micaceous mineral consisting of hydrated calcium aluminium silicate. Formula: CaAl 4 Si 2 O 10 (OH) 2
- an aggregate of minute beadlike masses occurring in some glassy igneous rocks
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Word History and Origins
Origin of margarite1
before 1000; Middle English, Old English: pearl < Latin margarīta < Greek margarī́tēs, perhaps < Iranian (compare Pahlavi marvārīt pearl), with final element conformed to Greek -ītēs -ite 1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of margarite1
C19: via German from Greek margaron pearl
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Example Sentences
Johnson, Webster, and Halliwell give margarite as an English word.
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When after days it was done, and commandant must be chosen, the Viceroy's choice fell upon Pedro Margarite.
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Fifty-six men he left with Margarite, and the rest of us marched home across the Vega and the northern mountains to Isabella.
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Pedro Margarite was placed in command with fifty-six men, and then Columbus started to return to Isabella.
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Margarite was also told that he must capture, by force or stratagem, the cacique Caonabo and his brothers.
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