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Meanings of carbuncle in English
Human disease.
Usage of carbuncle in English
1
Apply to the carbuncle, and it will soon ripen and break.
2
A facetted carbuncle accompanied by ten little twinkling emeralds; &c. &c.
3
The second row contained a carbuncle, a jasper, and a sapphire.
4
Mrs. Gore sent a huge carbuncle which Arabella strongly suspected to be glass.
5
They have among them the legend of the carbuncle, so famous in oriental mythos.
6
In the second a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper:
7
In some ways I felt sorry for the unprincipled carbuncle.
8
Baron Colditz, the Chancellor, fell ill of a carbuncle in his foot, and died.
9
The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel.
10
A carbuncle is to be differentiated from an ulcerated gumma and from anthrax pustule.
11
That carbuncle has made me suffer FRIGHTFULLY.... Why should I?
12
Therefore, let us hope that on this occasion, the blemish does not become a carbuncle!
13
Amidst the sordid crowd she shone out grandly, as with the radiance of a carbuncle.
14
He had to go down to her and be kind and comforting about that carbuncle.
15
The carbuncle-expert of Elmira charged me $135 for half-curing one carbuncle.
16
Each wore a crown of carbuncle of dazzling brightness.
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Translations for carbuncle
Russian
Carbuncle through the time
Carbuncle across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common