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definition
A precious stone of smoky yellow-brown or gray-brown color, used in Scottish jewellery.
Examples of cairngorm in a Sentence
Other precious stones, including the sapphire, emerald, oriental emerald, ruby, opal, amethyst, garnet, chrysolite, topaz, cairngorm, onyx, zircon, etc., have been found in the gold and tin bearing drifts and river gravels in numerous localities throughout the states.
On exposure to heat, amethyst generally becomes yellow, and much of the cairngorm or yellow quartz of jewellery is said to be merely "burnt amethyst."
However, there were other calls for ownership to be passed to the new cairngorm National Park Authority.
However, the name cairngorm means blue mountain as the peak apparently looks blue from a distance.
High in the Cairngorm Mountains, Ptarmigan are adorned in their white winter finery.
The cairngorm funicular case referred to under above Question 1b is a case in point.
Britain's first high speed funicular railroad was opened on Cairngorm on Sunday 23rd December 2001.
A hundred yards short of the summit and the central cairngorm plateau came into view.
Despite the big thaw in the middle of the week Cairngorm Mountain seem to have managed to get the Ciste ski run open!
Other precious stones, including the sapphire, emerald, oriental emerald, ruby, opal, amethyst, garnet, chrysolite, topaz, cairngorm, onyx, zircon, &c., have been found in the gold and tin bearing drifts and river gravels in numerous localities throughout the states.
The main lounge/dining room looks up to the summit of Cairngorm.
Despite the big thaw in the middle of the week Cairngorm Mountain seem to have managed to get the Ciste ski run open !