Tunic vs Garnet - What's the difference?
tunic | garnet |
A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.
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(mineral) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 127:
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, title=Gemstones
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A dark red.
Of a dark red colour.
As nouns the difference between tunic and garnet
is that tunic is a garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles while garnet is (mineral) a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives or garnet can be (nautical) a tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.As an adjective garnet is
of a dark red colour.tunic
English
(wikipedia tunic)Alternative forms
* tunick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
Anagrams
*garnet
English
(wikipedia garnet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) granate, from (etyl) grenate, from .Noun
(en noun)- How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
citation, passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet , lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)}}
