HOPE DIAMOND


Meaning of HOPE DIAMOND in English

a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.

[ after Henry Philip Hope (d. 1839), English gem collector, who once owned it ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .