cabochon
noun/ˌkæbəˈʃɒn/
Etymology Borrowed from French cabochon, diminutive form of caboche (“head”), from Old French caboce, from Latin caput (“head”).
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A precious stone which has only been polished, not cut into facets.
- Thecla was […] stroking a bracelet formed like a kraken, a kraken whose tentacles wrapped the white flesh of her arm; its eyes were cabochon emeralds.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 81:
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