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Vesuvian   Listen
noun
Vesuvian  n.  
1.
(Min.) Vesuvianite.
2.
A kind of match or fusee for lighting cigars, etc.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Vesuvian" Quotes from Famous Books



... door, and Miss Arbour's sister came in. After a few words of greeting I took my leave and walked home. I was confounded. Who could have dreamed that such tragic depths lay behind that serene face, and that her orderly precision was like the grass and flowers upon volcanic soil with Vesuvian fires slumbering below? I had been altogether at fault, and I was taught, what I have since been taught, over and over again, that unknown abysses, into which the sun never shines, lie covered with commonplace in men and women, ...
— The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford • Mark Rutherford



Words linked to "Vesuvian" :   mineral, vesuvianite, idocrase



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