carbuncle
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Noun — A dark red gemstone, such as a garnet, especially one polished into a smooth rounded shape rather than cut with facets.
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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 tumour"), a diminutive of carbō ("a coal, charcoal"). It is a doublet of Garfinkel and Garfunkel.
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