margarite

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It was a pretty casket, made of the margarite of the sea.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

Johnson, Webster, and Halliwell give margarite as an English word.

From Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

It forms white pearly scales, and was at first known as pearl-mica and afterwards as margarite, from μαργαρίτης, a pearl.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

I turned around to leave, but, dropping my precious box of margarite, I stooped to pick it up.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

In the preface of his sermons on the lives of Saints, Ælfric states that he intends not to translate any more, "ne forte despectui habeantur margarite Christi."

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules