aventurine
Meanings
Plural: aventurines
Noun
- a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals
- A kind of brownish glass containing gold-coloured spangles.
- A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French aventurine, from Italian avventurino, from avventurare (“to venture; to make lucky or prosperous”), from avventura (“chance; adventure, venture”) + -are (suffix forming the infinitive of most regular verbs), apparently so named because it was discovered by accident in Murano, Italy, when brass or copper filings were dropped into melted glass (see, however, the 1843 quotation).
Scrabble Score: 13
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Words With Friends Score: 17
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