TURQUOISE


Meaning of TURQUOISE in English

also turquois noun Etymology: Middle English turkeys, from Anglo-French turkeise, from feminine of turkeis Turkish, from Turc Turkish Date: 14th century a mineral that is a blue, bluish-green, or greenish-gray hydrous basic phosphate of copper and aluminum, takes a high polish, and is valued as a gem when skyblue, a light greenish blue

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