Definitions for cabochon

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cabochon cab·o·chon

Spelling: [kab-uh-shon; French ka-baw-

IPA: /ˈkæb əˌʃɒn; French ka bɔˈʃɔ̃/

Cabochon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in cabochon (abcchnoo).

Definitions for cabochon

noun

1. a precious stone of convex hemispherical or oval form, polished but not cut into facets.
2. an ornamental motif resembling this, either concave or convex and often surrounded by ornately carved leaf patterns, used on furniture of the 18th century.

adverb

1. in the form of a cabochon:

adjective

1. being cut cabochon:

Origin of cabochon

1570-80; Middle French, equivalent to caboche head (see cabbage¹) + -on diminutive suffix

Examples for cabochon

As you walk around them they glow in lights and shades like a cabochon emerald.

Otherwise, as Mr. cabochon judiciously says, why have the stones reset at all?

Its surface is pierced with holes arranged in rose-shaped patterns, and set with large pearls and cabochon sapphires.

I make a point of having a cabochon emerald: I collect them.'

The jewellery of Puy is mounted with cabochon stones in large high settings.

cabochon stones are sometimes set over foil or on polished gold to increase the reflection of light.

Any other fiery red stone might equally well be styled a carbuncle, especially if cabochon cut.

In many of the Flemish pictures of the same date we find ornamental rings set with table-cut or cabochon stones.

Like the rose cut, the cabochon cut does not give much brilliancy as compared to the brilliant cut.

The Loch Buy brooch, of more elaborate workmanship, is likewise surmounted by a cabochon crystal on a raised dais.