Obs. Also 4 alabaunderryne, alabraundyne. [a. L. alabandīna (sc. gemma), f. Alabanda a city of Caria.]

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  1.  A precious stone known to the ancients; now called ALMANDINE.

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c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. Poems, B. 1471. Alabaunderrynes, & amaraunȝ.

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1366.  Maundev., xx. 219. The rede [gems] ben of Rubies & of Grenaȝ & of Alabraundynes.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVI. xiii. (1495), 558. Alabandina is a precious stone clere and somdeale red.

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1567.  Maplet, Greene Forest, 2 b. The Gem Alabandine … is somewhat more rare, and in colour cleare.

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1658.  Phillips, Alabandine, a kind of stone, that provokes to bleed [ed. 1678 Alabandine or Amandine; ed. 1706 Almandine only].

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  2.  A synonym of ALABANDITE.

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