agate 的定义
- a variegated chalcedony showing curved, colored bands or other markings.
- a playing marble made of this substance, or of glass in imitation of it.
- Printing. a 5½-point type of a size between pearl and nonpareil.Compare ruby.
agate 近义词
等同于 typeface
更多agate例句
- The historian Pliny the Elder describes owning agate cups as a sign of wealth and luxury.
- By contrast this cup is made of gold, onyx, precious stones, and the stone agate.
- Agate was widely used to carve high-value objects like signets and cylinder seals in the ancient Near East.
- While agate could likely be acquired much more cheaply, aristocratic Romans were serious about their agate.
- And, like Teddy, I was approached by Agate to do business with him.
- There are gold, silver, agate and crystal vases, silver tables and gold plate of every description.
- We managed, however, to pick up some interesting Chinese snuff bottles of carved agate, some with pictures painted inside.
- An axe poised upon a stake, or an agate on a red-hot axe, was supposed by its movement to indicate the offender.
- At the far end was a raised dais with a mammoth statue of a kneeling woman, sculptured of the same effulgent, agate material.
- Then there were horns of ivory and ebony; emeralds, purple and broidered work, fine linen, coral and agate.