"Brilliant" is a word in ENGLISH
The smallest size of type used in England printing.
Distinguished by qualities which excite admiration;
splendid; shining; as, brilliant talents.
Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as,
a brilliant star.
A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into
faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it
is rendered more brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal
face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping
facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel
to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated
facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is
entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below.
A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving.
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle …
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Read the complete definitionOne of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.
Read the complete definitionCut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds …
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