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    A sapphire is a hard, bright jewel, famous for a deep clear blue — the blue of a clean evening sky. Jewellers also use the name for the same kind of stone in other colours (a pink sapphire, a yellow one), but if someone just says sapphire, they almost always mean the blue. People set it in rings and crowns; September’s birthstone is often a sapphire. The word can also name that blue colour itself. Though actually, the old name probably first belonged to a different blue stone, lapis lazuli; the jewel we now call sapphire kept the word. Ruby is the red sister-stone, the same hard mineral in another colour. Real sapphire is very hard — not glass, not plastic.

組成From Old French saphir, from Latin, from Greek sáppheiros (“a precious blue stone”), probably from a Semitic word such as Hebrew sappīr, further back from Akkadian. The ancient name may have meant lapis lazuli.

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Sapphirename

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    A female given name from English from the precious stone.

    • I asked her once how a little girl who didn't have blue eyes ended up being called Sapphire. She pursed her lips for a few seconds, clearly wondering how she could get away with not telling me. 'My older brother is called Mistral,' she said in the end. 'My younger sister is Blaze. I'd say I was the lucky one.' As I say, hippy parents.
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    A locality in the Inverell council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Sapphirenoun

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    A stereotype of an aggressive and domineering black woman.

    • When black women speak up about indignities, they are Sapphires. When black women stand up for their rights, they are Sapphires.
    • Described as feisty wenches, seductive Jezebels, or loud and angry Sapphires, Black women's public persona has long been dominated by these images.

sapphirenoun/ˈsæf.aɪ̯ə/

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    A clear deep blue variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.

    • Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
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    A white, yellow, or purple variety of corundum, either clear or translucent.

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    A deep blue colour.

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    governmentheraldryhobbiesAzure, when blazoning by precious stones.

    • Elgin. Topaz a Saltier and Chief Ruby, on a Canton Pearl a Lyon Rampant Saphyr, which last is their paternal Coat; […]
    • 3. Saphire, ten Bezants, 4, 3, 2, 1, by the Bisset.
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    Any hummingbird in the genera Hylocharis and Chlorestes, as well as the rufous-throated sapphire, which is now in the genus Amazilia.

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    Any of the butterflies in the southern Asian lycaenid genus Heliophorus or the African lycaenid genus Iolaus.

sapphireadj/ˈsæf.aɪ̯ə/

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    of a deep blue colour.

    • At about eleven, we uncaged our pigeons, who flew away into the sapphire sky that hung like a sail from the white peaks.
    • They awoke to panoramic views of a national park's tropical forests, the Gulf of Paria's shallows and the Caribbean's sparkling sapphire waters.
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    pertaining to a 45th year

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