carbuncle
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Noun — A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
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Etymology
From Middle English carbuncle, charbocle, from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, from Latin carbunculus (“a small coal; a reddish kind of precious stone; a kind of tumor”), diminutive of carbō (“a coal, charcoal”). Doublet of Garfinkel and Garfunkel.
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