DCHP-3

labradorite

[Labrador + -ite]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

n. a feldspar shot with blue, green, and other colors.

Quotations

1864
Huge blocks of gneiss and labradorite lie in the channel of the river, or on the gneiss domes which here and there pierce the sandy tract through which the river flows.
1963
They have unearthed semi-precious stones the length and breadth of the country from Newfoundland's labradorite to malachite in Yukon. . . .