Definition of "onyxes" [onyxes]

• Plural form of onyx. (noun)

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• "The house is most magnificently built without, nor less gloriously furnished within, having whole tables and bedsteads of massy silver, many of them sett with achates, onyxes, cornelians, lazulis, pearls, turquizes, and other precious stones."
• "As for her eyes, the customary similes of the court poets were gigantic onyxes or ebony highly polished and wet with May dew."
• "His eyes were large and insolent, coloured like onyxes; for the rest, he had a handsome surly face which was disfigured by pimples."