margarite

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It forms white pearly scales, and was at first known as pearl-mica and afterwards as margarite, from μαργαρίτης, a pearl.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

It was a pretty casket, made of the margarite of the sea.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

I turned around to leave, but, dropping my precious box of margarite, I stooped to pick it up.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

From a chemical analysis of a sample it has been calculated that the emery contained 52.4% of corundum, 32.1 of magnetite, 11.5 of tourmaline, 2 of muscovite and 2 of margarite.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

In the preface of his sermons on the lives of Saints, Ælfric states that he intends not to translate any more, "ne forte despectui habeantur margarite Christi."

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules