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Artificial gem

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an imitation of a gem, made of glass colored with metallic oxide. Cf. Paste, and Strass.

See also: Gem



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GEMSTONES From the French "caillou du Rhin", the colourless, hard-glass artificial gems termed "rhinestone" was named because it was originally made on the Rhine at Strasbourg.
 
 
 
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