cabochon
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French cabochon, diminutive form of caboche (“head”), from Old French caboce, from Latin caput (“head”).[1]
Noun edit
cabochon (plural cabochons)
- (chiefly attributive) A precious stone which has only been polished, not cut into facets.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 81:
- Thecla was […] stroking a bracelet formed like a kraken, a kraken whose tentacles wrapped the white flesh of her arm; its eyes were cabochon emeralds.
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Translations edit
References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “cabochon”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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Noun edit
cabochon (plural cabochons or cabochonne)
- Alternative form of kabosjon
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French cabochon.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cabochon m (plural cabochons)
French edit
Etymology edit
From caboche + -on, literally “small head”.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cabochon m (plural cabochons)
- cabochon
- (Typography) cul-de-lampe
- Small nail with an ornamental head, especially used in furniture
- (Quebec) head
- (Quebec, slang) silly, unintelligent, clumsy
Further reading edit
- “cabochon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.