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Turquoise is a blue-green colour, named after a gemstone of the same colour. You can use it for the colour itself (a turquoise dress) or for the stone (jewellery made with turquoise).
土耳其玉色、綠松石色；土耳其玉
組成From French, meaning 'Turkish', because the stone reached Europe through Turkey.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
turquoisenoun/ˈtɜː(ɹ).k(w)ɔɪz/
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A sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone.
- Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
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A pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone.
- The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
turquoiseadj/ˈtɜː(ɹ).k(w)ɔɪz/
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Made of turquoise (the gemstone).
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Having a pale greenish-blue colour.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。