sunstone

[ suhn-stohn ]

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noun

a reddish variety of oligoclase feldspar, used as a gem, having a red and bright-yellow play of color.

sunstone

/ ˈsʌnˌstəʊn /

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Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; sun, stone

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C17: so called because it contains red and gold flecks which reflect the light

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Sunstone culture because of the sun worship and the megaliths.

He loved the red gold of the sunstone, and the moonstone's pearly whiteness, and the broken rainbow of the milky opal.

He loved the red-gold of the sunstone, and the moonstone's pearly whiteness, and the broken rainbow of the milky opal.

On the fifteenth chunk, he got an interruption pattern that told him that a sunstone—or something, probably something—was inside.

He looked at them for a moment, and dropped the new sunstone in among them, chuckling happily.

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